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