Sir Joshua Reynolds
(English, 1723-1792).


Mrs. Robert Froude, née Phillis Hurrell (1762).
Oil on canvas.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Phillis Hurrell was the only child of an old aristocratic family from Devon, England.

She sat for Joshua Reynolds when she was about sixteen years old. He shows her playing a lute, perhaps a sign of her talent as well as her faithfulness and sympathetic character.

In 1766, four years after having her portrait painted, Phillis married Robert Froude.