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Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/1/201
Title	To Sir Joshua Reynolds, from Aberdeen
Date	1 January 1782
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	Sir Joshua Reynolds [1723-1792]. Portrait painter and first President of the Royal Academy. Beattie first met him on his London visit in 1771. He painted an allegorical portrait of Beattie, "The Triumph of Truth", in 1773
Description	He sends Discourse on Beauty to Reynolds for comments, via friend Mrs Forbes of Park-Place, St James. He was in Oxford for a week due to bad health. He went to College chapel every morning to see Reynolds's painted window with the Seven Virtues.
Access Status	Open
Physical Description	1 leaf folded
Publication Note	Published in "The Correspondence of James Beattie - Letters 1758-1775", ed. Roger J. Robinson

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