Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/He might have stopped the American Revolution, had he Dun More. This is a terrible pun and I hope noone notices.

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore edit

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Original – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, last Royal Governor of New York, with a war (Lord Dunmore's War and an important proclamation trying to stop the rebels by freeing their slaves (Lord Dunmore's Proclamation) instigated and named after him

Reason: I don't think we've featured any of William Blake's antagonist, Joshua Reynolds. On 8 October 1779, Blake became a student at the Royal Academy in Old Somerset House, near the Strand. While the terms of his study required no payment, he was expected to supply his own materials throughout the six-year period. There, he rebelled against what he regarded as the unfinished style of fashionable painters such as Rubens, championed by the school's first president, Joshua Reynolds. Over time, Blake came to detest Reynolds' attitude towards art, especially his pursuit of "general truth" and "general beauty". Reynolds wrote in his Discourses that the "disposition to abstractions, to generalising and classification, is the great glory of the human mind"; Blake responded, in marginalia to his personal copy, that "To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit" - from William Blake.
But, that said, Blake was a highly unique artist for his time. Reynolds was the mainstream, and as a representative of the mainstream, quite good. Plus, he shows a lot of important people. Probably idealized a bit, but still...
John Murray is a very interesting person, one of the leaders of the British side in the leadup to the American Revolution. But more about him anon.
Articles in which this image appears: John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore +10 (in the main, all usages are highly relevant.)
FP category for this image: Some subset of People. I think he's less important as a noble than as a governor and military leader, so perhaps Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military? Possibly both, though we don't generally do that much anymore.
Creator: Joshua Reynolds

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:48, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - BTW, I believe it's no-one. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:21, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - finally. We need more Scottish people. Phil is for some reason, even if a big Reynolds-enthusiast, too shy on this... Saw wonderful paintings at the SNG. Hafspajen (talk) 13:01, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Hafspajen and Sagaciousphil: One problem is that a lot of the Reynolds works are currently being shown in low resolution, even if high-res copies exist; noone's gone through and done the necessary replacements. I'd suspect that at least a third of the images in commons:Category:Google Art Project works by Joshua Reynolds would be featureable if someone put in the work replacing low-resolution copies of them. I had to do that with Dunmore (we were using a mere 540×874px copy that was otherwise near-identical), and when I checked another one, File:Sir Joshua Reynolds - James, 7th Earl of Lauderdale - Google Art Project.jpg, it was exactly the same situation. Even Joshua Reynolds is largely stuffed with low-res copies. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:52, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^{^{And as usual they are not in the article.}} Hafspajen (talk) 21:28, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support – SagaciousPhil - Chat 15:11, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Godot13 (talk) 04:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice - SchroCat (talk) 09:16, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Totally digging the colors and textures on the tartans. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 13:38, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Sir Joshua Reynolds - John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:32, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]