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Reynolds Was So ‘Hard-Headed Understanding of the Business Reynolds Much More Than a Portraitist to Such Families ER.MAR.pg.proof.corrs:Layout 1 17/02/2010 14:46 Page 196 EXHIBITIONS in this section was how Reynolds was so ‘hard-headed understanding of the business Reynolds much more than a portraitist to such families. side of portraiture’ continued with his portrait Plymouth He was a supreme social networker (and of (no.31) and two mezzotints by James climber), not only producing a number of McArdell (nos.29 and 30). Reynolds not only by KATE RETFORD portraits for the Parkers, but also becoming a dominated the Royal Academy exhibitions close family friend. He seems to have acquired with his portraits of celebrities, he was also THE SUBTITLE TO the exhibition Sir Joshua paintings for them in Rome; he toured artists’ highly alert to the potential of the rapidly Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius at Ply- studios with them in London; he advised on expanding print market. McArdell was the first mouth City Museum and Art Gallery the display of their art collection at Saltram; engraver to work for Reynolds, and the artist’s (closed 20th February) was well chosen. As and he even, on one occasion, lent Sir astute, reputed assessment of his mezzotints Sam Smiles points out in his introduction to Thomas Parker money. indicates the importance of such prints for the substantial catalogue,1 Reynolds’s idea of The prompt for this exhibition was the both his national and international reputation: genius was very far from any notions of inher- Plymouth Museum’s acquisition in 2007 of a ‘by this man I shall be immortalized’.4 ent talent or divine spark. For him, it was number of portraits by Reynolds of members An abrupt break occurred between the latter something to be nurtured, to be developed of the Eliot family. Of particular interest is section, dealing with Reynolds’s inexorable through a process of diligent industry and the conversation piece The Eliot family, dated rise, and the next focused on his activities as a training. This exhibition traced the fruits of to c.1746 but likely to be somewhat earlier collector of prints and drawings. This gallery his own assiduous labour, which took him (no.7). This was a singular foray into a included an impressive selection from the from a perhaps unlikely start as the son of a sub-genre of portraiture highly popular at the three thousand or so sheets which were sold at Devon schoolmaster to the glories of being time, and one conducted here with a notable auction following the artist’s death, and amply ‘Sir Joshua’, President of the Royal Academy lack of success. Drawing heavily on Anthony demonstrated the sheer range of his collection of Arts and foremost society portraitist in late van Dyck’s The Pembroke family of c.1635 at in schools and styles. Guido Reni’s Head of St eight eenth-century London. Wilton, it fails to translate the style and Crispin (c.1620–21; no.61) retains an original At the entrance to the show was Reynolds’s composition into the small group-portrait ‘Reynolds’ mount with its simple frame, and self-portrait of c.1747–49 (cat. no.32: Fig.55). idiom. The poorly rendered faces and drap- the mechanisms of collecting were here very In this Rembrandtesque image, we see the ery, the mistakes in scale and the mishandled much under scrutiny. The catalogue notes the artist in his mid-twenties, shading his eyes as setting indicate, perhaps, why Reynolds went way in which these works passed between he gazes out of the canvas, not quite meeting on to become so successful with the broad portraitists and frequently from master to stu- the viewer’s gaze but looking somewhere facture and drama of the grand manner. When dent. The provenance of Van Dyck’s A sheet of over one’s right shoulder. The muted hues he returned to the model of Van Dyck’s studies for a male figure (no.64) begins with the that dominate the painting are offset by the seminal family-group many years later in The collection of Jonathan Richardson, moves blue silk waistcoat; the softness of the general Marlborough family of 1777–78, he was not onto that of his protégé, Thomas Hudson, and painterly effect is accentuated by the contrast- only a much more accomplished artist, but he thence to Reynolds himself. ingly hard, diagonal line of the painter’s maul- also revisited the prototype on a grander scale Although, to some extent, this move into stick. This is the only known self-portrait to which echoed the original. collecting created a sense of there being two show Reynolds with the tools of his trade. From the West Country, the exhibition took shows, the theme of ‘the acquisition of genius’ The exhibition took us from this striking the visitor through Reynolds’s Grand Tour to persisted. James Northcote’s description of image to the 1773 Self-portrait in doctoral robes Italy between 1749 and 1752, where, accord- Reynolds, at home in the evenings, ‘looking (no.33), in which brushes and palette are ing to one manuscript on display, he spent a over, and studying from, the prints of the typically omitted in favour of an emphasis on memorable day in the Sistine Chapel, ‘walking Old Masters’ enhances the sense of constant one of the many honours and titles that were up and down with great self importance’. The study, the persistent search for inspiration and, to be heaped upon the artist. story continued with Reynolds’s established of course, the hunt for sources for the artist’s The exhibition explored Reynolds’s early career in London and the era that featured infamous ‘borrowings’ – the direct transpo - years and his training under Thomas Hudson, in the Tate’s exhibition Joshua Reynolds: The sition of selected poses and compositions into leading portraitist of the day. The precocious Creation of Celebrity in 2005.3 In these sections his own work.5 As Reynolds opined: ‘Inven- young man was insistent that, if he could not the coherence of the Plymouth show faltered tion, strictly speaking, is little more than a new be apprenticed to a painter of note, he would a little, although the theme of Reynolds’s combination of those images which have been sooner not bother; ‘he would rather be an apothecary than an ordinary painter; but if he could be bound to an eminent master, he 55. Self-portrait shading the should choose the latter’.2 The show then eyes, by Joshua Reynolds. moved onto Reynolds’s West Country c.1747–49. Canvas, 63 by 40 patrons and the importance of local wealthy cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London; exh. landowning families such as the Edgcumbes in Plymouth City Museum his early years and through the rest of his and Art Gallery). career. This section of the exhibition was nicely handled, with the various groups of family portraits clustered together in enclosed, intimate spaces to good effect. The paintings from Saltram, west of Plymouth, provided some of the highlights of the show, including the double-portrait of John and Therese Parker (1779; no.20; Fig.56). Reynolds him- self may have been most gratified with the head of the boy, but it is the pert face, large eyes and tightly clasped hands of his sister which most fully exemplify the style of child portraiture for which the artist was renowned, both in his own lifetime and the subsequent century. What became particularly apparent 196 march 2010 • cliI • the burlington magazine ER.MAR.pg.proof.corrs:Layout 1 17/02/2010 14:46 Page 197 EXHIBITIONS install legislation that would recognise the Madeleine Vionnet designers’ works as their intellectual and Paris artistic property. Thus, in addition to prose- cuting breaches of copyright, she devised an by LYNNE COOKE ingenious label on which both her signature and her fingerprint were inscribed in order SEVERAL DECADES AFTER her retirement in to ensure her garments’ authenticity. Vion- 1939, Madeleine Vionnet drew a distinction net’s foresight in protecting her legacy was between a ‘true couturier’ and ‘those working part of a vaulting ambition she once charac- today’: a couturier was involved with ‘dress- terised in terms of the desire to make Rolls ing a body with fabric’, she claimed, whereas Royces rather than Fords. (Her arch-rival, the latter, whom she dismissed as ‘painters’ Chanel, prided herself on her ability to and ‘decorators’, were dedicated to ‘con- create Fords, by which she meant designs structing an outfit’. Pragmatism had long been that achieved an unchallenged ubiquity and a hallmark of her aesthetic: the belief that ‘a popularity at all social levels; to the highly couturier dresses human beings not dreams’ narcissistic Chanel, imitation and plagiarism was another of her foundational tenets. Vion- were confirmation of her originality.) net’s distinction still holds, as may be seen in a Vionnet’s conviction that a successful comparison of the work of, say, Issey Miyake Mais on depended equally on a well-run busi- or Isabel Toledo, with the extravaganzas that ness, on creativity and on exquisitely refined typify current impresarios of the spectacular, technical expertise contributed to her leg- 56. John and Therese Parker, by Joshua Reynolds. Christian Lacroix and John Galliano. endary status. When faced in 1939 with the c.1779. Canvas, 142.2 by 111.8 cm. (National Trust, One of the few supremely intelligent cou- loss of her lease and the uncertainty of Morley Collection, Saltram; exh. Plymouth City turiers, Vionnet honed her philosophy over approaching war, she recognised that she had Museum and Art Gallery). a period of two decades between the two already done all she wanted as a designer and World Wars.
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