Philip Reinagle (1749 – 1833)

• Was an English painter of animals, landscapes, and botanical scenes.
• The son of a Hungarian musician living in Edinburgh.
• Reinagle came to London in 1763 and after serving an apprenticeship, later became a member of the Royal Academy.
• Philip Reinagle entered the schools of the Royal Academy in 1769, and later became a pupil of Allan Ramsay.
• He assisted to Ramsay on his numerous portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte.
• He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1773.
• The works he showed were almost all portraits until 1785, when the monotonous work of producing replicas of royal portraits appears to have given him a distaste for portraiture, and led him to abandon it for animal painting.
• He became very successful in his treatment of sporting dogs, especially spaniels, of birds, and of dead game.
• He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1787, but did not become an academician until 1812, when he presented as his diploma picture An Eagle and a Vulture disputing with a Hyaena.
• Reinagle died at 5 York Place, Chelsea, London, on 27 November 1833, aged 84.
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