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...Joshua Reynolds called her “Miss Angel”, the poet Gottfried von Herder “a heavenly creature”. Divine inspiration was her logo....
...Reynolds’ lofty, stargazing “Francis Barber” (c1770), who was Samuel Johnson’s secretary, and Gainsborough’s nonchalantly easy “Ignatius Sancho” (1768), writer, composer, abolitionist, are classicised, noble...
...But Reynolds’ children have their own natural grace....
...Old favourites shine, new arrivals stun: Reynolds’ lofty Polynesian youth “Mai”, Shirin Neshat’s “Malala” adorned in Arabic script, Michael Armitage’s flamboyant tapestry starring Hackney dustmen....
...Joshua Reynolds’ life-size “Mai”, Britain’s first visitor from Tahiti posed as Apollo Belvedere, sinuous and sensuous in white robes and shimmery turban, barefoot, hands tattooed, illuminates the entire...
...Captions admonishing Gainsborough’s and Reynolds’ white subjects, enriched by colonial trade, become relentlessly hectoring, and Tate has not learnt from its misjudged Hogarth show....
...What stands out is the vitality of the album’s production, particularly on tracks such as “Jackie Down the Line” and “Big Shot”....
...contrasting monuments: the heap of broken stones, stark and luminous on a bare heath, in the watercolour “Stonehenge”, a timeless image of solitude and sorrow, and “Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...She’s worked with Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette, Jackie Chan, Charlize Theron, Ryan Reynolds . . . You get the idea. But when she was in her late 40s, Cathy decided to go back to school....
...Halston finds fame when he’s name-checked during the Kennedy inauguration as the designer of Jackie’s pillbox hat....
...Brown’s “The Children of the Fourth Duke” is a blurry, bleached, delicately lovely version of a Reynolds family portrait: the children remain, figures of pathos, but Reynolds’s stone arches and formal statues...
...His girlfriend Diamond Reynolds’ film of the immediate aftermath, posted on Facebook, had 9m views....
...Walpole packed labyrinthine rooms with frothy, effeminate paintings — Joshua Reynolds’ rouged, décolleté “The Ladies Waldegrave” in creamy lace, Peter Lely’s golden-locked pipe-playing androgynous “Portrait...
...Joshua Reynolds’ Polynesian socialite “Omai”, barefoot in oriental costume, hands tattooed, steps forward in the pose of the Apollo Belvedere....
...Reynolds acquired Poussin, Rembrandt, Bellini. Lawrence owned a Raphael, a Guido Reni and Agostino Carracci’s 4m charcoal-and-white chalk cartoon “A Woman Borne Off by a Sea God”....
...“It is disappointing that what are very sensible climate resolutions did not gain enough investor support within the US oil and gas majors,” said Fiona Reynolds, managing director of the UNPRI....
...counterpart in Ford’s playful, allusive sculptures: a mysterious white figure, “Glory Glory”, lurking in a niche where Walpole displayed a suit of armour; “Waldegrave Poodles” based on those in Joshua Reynold...
...gallery.simsreed.com, 020 7930 5111, to March 20 … Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint, The Wallace Collection, London This is an exhibition for connoisseurs....
...elegance, seen here in the National Gallery’s comic “Drunken Silenus” and Washington’s dashing “A Genoese Noblewoman and Her Son”, and thus to the swashbuckling portraiture of Thomas Lawrence and Joshua Reynolds...
...For Ai’s installation “He Xie”, about restriction of individual expression, 2,300 ceramic crabs are heaped in the Red Drawing Room beneath family portraits by Reynolds and Sargent; “freedom flower” porcelain...
...As gallery after gallery unfolds, with Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of darting youths, “Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers”, at one end, facing the dynamic abstract forms of David Bomberg’s “The Mud...
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s chief visual arts critic...
...As Jackie Wullschlager writes in her piece on gigantism, the only thing for sure is that it’s all getting bigger....
...John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, found time to amass an Old Master collection acknowledged as the greatest in the UK before the French revolution; to augment the royal collection; to introduce the king to Reynolds...
...‘Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed’, Royal Academy, London, from March 10 to June 10, www.royalacademy.org.uk Video: Jackie Wullschlager visits the RA’s Zoffany show...
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