REFRAMING REYNOLDS: A CELEBRATION
24 June to 29 October 2023
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1794) was a portrait painter known for capturing his clients’ personalities. He was one of the founding members and first president of the Royal Academy and one of the most influential painters in the 1700s. This ambitious exhibition will coincide with the 300th anniversary of his birth in Plympton Stfirst portrait studio in Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), and the exhibition will explore his studio practice and early career in Devon. It will also look at what he learnt on his travels in Europe and how it influenced his theories on art education, his involvement in the printmaking process, his experiments with pigments, colour, shadow and light, and notions of celebrity.
