One of Britain’s most important and influential painters, Sir
Joshua Reynolds (1723 size=1 color=black>–1792) is justly
celebrated for his dynamic portraiture, his poignant ‘fancy
pictures’, his ambitious history paintings and his role as the
first President of Britain’s Royal Academy. Published to
accompany a major exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London (12
March size=1 color=black>–7 June 2015), and the result of the
four-year research project, this catalogue focuses on Reynolds's
innovative, often highly experimental approaches to the practice
and materials of painting. It investigates his radical manipulation
of pigments, oils, glazes and varnishes, and traces his experiments
with colour, tone and handling. It reveals his continual temptation
to rework and revise his pictures, illuminates his highly creative
responses to the new exhibition culture of his day and explores his
continual adaptations of the art of the Old Masters. In doing so,
it encourages us to look at the work of this famous
eighteenth-century British artist in a new and often surprising
light. Technical analysis of some of Reynolds's most important
paintings will be revelatory, and close-up photography and detailed
examination of a range of pictures size=1 color=black>– at the
centre of which are the Wallace Collection’s own outstanding
collection of works by the artist size=1 color=black>– will
shed light on the fascinating and ongoing process of
experimentation that spanned Reynolds’s entire career. The book
situates Reynolds’s practice of experimentation, of both
technique and of subject, in relation to that conducted at leading
societies of science and learning at the time, and specifically to
Josiah Wedgwood, one of Enlightenment Britain’s greatest
experimentalists in the arts. Finally, it demonstrates how
Reynolds’s innovations as a painter were often the product of
collaboration size=1 color=black>– in part, with his
assistants and his students, but, more importantly, with his
patrons and subjects, with whom he continually explored the
possibilities of gesture, expression, performance and role-play.
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