Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint

The Wallace Collection's spring exhibition will offer a fresh perspective on a towering figure of British portraiture, Joshua Reynolds.

Although widely regarded as one of the most important and influential painters of the period, Reynolds’ 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.