Cupid, in the Character of a Link Boy 1777 John Dean British Dean's print reproduces a painting by Reynolds devoted to a familiar London sight—linkboys who were paid to light pedestrians through dark streets before public lighting became commonplace. One of Reynolds's most loyal patrons, John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745–1799), bought the painting from the artist in 1774, it then remained in the family through the late nineteenth century and is now in the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. This impression once belonged to to the British painter Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)

Cupid, in the Character of a Link Boy 1777 John Dean British Dean's print reproduces a painting by Reynolds devoted to a familiar London sight—linkboys who were paid to light pedestrians through dark streets before public lighting became commonplace. One of Reynolds's most loyal patrons, John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (1745–1799), bought the painting from the artist in 1774, it then remained in the family through the late nineteenth century and is now in the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. This impression once belonged to to the British painter Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) as part of a large collection of mezzotints after Cupid, in the Character of a Link Boy 623128

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