Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint

Although widely regarded as one of the most important and influential painters of the period, Reynolds’s reputation as an ‘establishment’ artist masks his unquenchable thirst for innovation and his experimental approach to the practice and materials of painting. The exhibition explores Reynolds’s painting techniques, pictorial compositions and narratives through the display of 20 paintings, archival sources and x-ray images. Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint draws upon the significant works within the Wallace Collection and major loans from the UK, other European countries and the USA, all chosen to reveal Reynolds’s compositional and narrative experimentation and his unorthodox choice of materials, admixtures of paint and complex layering techniques.

Website
http://wallacecollection.org/collections/exhibition/114

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000096?id=EVENT509492