Little in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s early days suggested his works would one ... to become the greatest portrait artist England has ever seen. A founder and the first president of the new Royal Academy of ...

Art History Conservators Find a ‘Monstrous Figure’ Hidden in an 18th-Century Joshua Reynolds Painting. The creature was found hidden under layers of paint and varnish.

If you live in Edinburgh or Dublin, the coming of each new year is likely to be accompanied by thoughts of the ‘father of modern art’ (as Turner was dubbed by Ruskin). Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus ...

Just how problematic is Joshua Reynolds? Doyen of the “grand style”, founding president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and preferred portraitist of the 18th century’s great and good, Reynolds ...

Watch Elaine Banks Stainton's appraisal of a 1780 Joshua Reynolds-Attributed Drawing, in Santa Clara, Hour 1. Aired: 04/19/15 Rating: TV-G ...

Though Reynolds’s contemporaries urged him to paint the demon out, the artist resisted. Print seller John Boydell had commissioned Reynolds, who primarily crafted portraits, to create the work ...

A joint purchase of Joshua Reynolds' heralded "Portrait of 'Mai,'" between London's National Portrait Gallery and the Getty, was at first nixed.

The paintings of Joshua Reynolds stand head and shoulders above those of most of his 18th-century contemporaries and successors – literally, in the case of his large-scale portraiture.

A hidden face recently uncovered in a 1789 Joshua Reynolds painting proves the devil ... although records of conversations with the artist show he resisted such attempts to alter the work." ...

Darren Pih, Chief Curator and Artistic Director, commented: “As we mark 300 years since the birth of celebrated British artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Harewood is excited to present Reframing ...