Joshua Reynolds
A baroque painter of fussy British portraits set in Renaissance-style scenes
Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was a somewhat fussy Baroque traditionalist, the first president of Britain's Royal Academy, and a firm believer in the of art painting's duty to celebrate history.
Reynolds spent much of his career casting his noble patrons as ancient gods in portrait compositions cribbed from Old Masters.
Many of Reynold's works in England are in:
- National Gallery, London
- Tate Britain, London
- Wallace Collection, London
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Wilton House, Wiltshire
- Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich
- Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
- Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
Selected works by Joshua Reynolds in England
Where to find works by Joshua Reynolds in England
England's greatest repository of Old Masters paintings, with works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, and more
A 17th century manor house in Hampstead Heath with a fabulous free art collection
Fantastic, small, bit-of-everything museum—ancient Roman and Egyptian sculptures; paintings by Turner, Reynolds, and Hogarth; architectural remnants and Cantonese furniture—all crammed into the formerly private home of an eclectic collector
An historic London townhouse filled with 18C antiques and French and Old Master paintings—all for free
Packed with pictures of old Brits, including the only life portrait of Shakespeare
