Valued at £50m, Portrait of Mai by Sir Joshua Reynolds is on show at the city's Cartwright Hall, in Manningham. The painting, which depicts the first Polynesian to visit Britain, is touring the ...

Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai will be acquired and owned jointly by @NPGLondon and @GettyMuseum — just announced,” tweeted author Lucy Ward, who has been instrumental in efforts to keep ...

Art restorers: Making the old new 06:58. A hidden face recently uncovered in a 1789 Joshua Reynolds painting proves the devil is in the details. In "The Death of Cardinal Beaufort," Reynolds ...

In a highly unusual move, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the National Portrait Gallery in London will jointly buy Joshua Reynolds’s “Portrait of Mai (Omai),” considered one of ...

Mark Aronson, deputy director and chief conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, said that the work of Reynolds, the leading English portrait painter of the 18th century, was “notoriously ...

For months, the National Portrait Gallery in London raced to raise enough funds to purchase Joshua Reynolds’s (1723–1792) 1776 painting Portrait of Omai.The goal was to keep the historically ...

As part of an effort to conserve Reynolds’s paintings on the 300th anniversary of his birth, the National Trust examined the work and found that it was heavily overpainted by several hands.

This selection of paintings might not be “the cream of Reynolds”, but it makes for “a nice, tight exhibition”. Kenwood House, London NW3 (0370-333 1181, english-heritage.org.uk ). Until 19 ...

Conservators recently discovered the malignant spirit in the shadows of an 18th-century painting by Joshua Reynolds as they prepared for a show honoring the artist’s 300th birthday.