| Title |
Reynolds, Robert F. |
| Date |
b. ca. 1818 |
| Description |
Robert F. Reynolds, born ca. 1818 in Pennsylvania, was a portrait painter who worked as a lithographic artist in Philadelphia
ca. 1841-1886. He primarily designed fine-detailed architectural advertising prints, such as the beautiful chromolithograph
"H. B. McCalla, Successor to the late Andrew McCalla, No. 252 Market St. First Hat & Cap Store Below 8th St. South Side, Philadelphia"
(ca. 1852).
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Reynolds began his career as a portrait painter in 1841, when he exhibited a portrait after Henry Inman at the Artists' Fund
Society. Two years later he operated from 17 South Fifth Street, the same address tenanted by William H. Rease from 1844-1854.
Reynolds delineated many lithographs for Frederick Kuhl in the mid-to-late 1840s and for Wagner & McGuigan in the 1850s. Reynolds's
subsequent business addresses were: 75 Dock Street (1853); 30 South Fifth Street (1854-1856); 204 South Fifth Street (1858-1859);
209 South Fifth Street (1863-1869); 506 Walnut Street (1874-1878); 1539 Chestnut Street (1881-1883); 723 Walnut Street (1884-1885);
and 909 Walnut Street (1886).
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His residences between 1850 and 1880, when not his studio address, are mostly unknown. The 1850 census indicates that he resided
with his mother Mary Reynolds (b. ca. 1785) in Center City near South Street in the New Market Ward. By 1880 he resided as
a single man at 242 South Third Street in Center City.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Inman, Henry; Kuhl, Frederick; Rease, W. H. ; and Wagner & McGuigan |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850 and 1880 |
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Groce & Wallace, 533 |
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Last, 233 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Peters, 333 |
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Philadelphia Business & City Directories, 1843-1886 (intermittently) |
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WWWAA, 2750 |
