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Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection This edition of the Technical Bulletin has been supported by the American Friends of the National Gallery, London National Gallery Technical Bulletin with a generous donation from Mrs Charles Wrightsman volume 35 Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection Series editor: Ashok Roy Photographic credits © National Gallery Company Limited 2014 BOSTON All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted © 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 18, 78. in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including CAMBRIDGE photocopy, recording, or any storage and retrieval system, without © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: 7. prior permission in writing from the publisher. EDINBURGH Articles published online on the National Gallery website Scottish National Gallery may be downloaded for private study only. © National Galleries of Scotland: 21. HOUSTON First published in Great Britain in 2014 by © The Menil Collection, Houston, photo Hickey-Robertson, National Gallery Company Limited Houston: 17. St Vincent House, 30 Orange Street London WC2H 7HH INDIANAPOLIS © Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana: 145. www.nationalgallery. co.uk LONDON British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. © The British Museum: 90, 138. © The National Gallery, London: 2, 13, 14, 20, 23, 27–9, 31, 33–41, A catalogue record is available from the British Library. 45, 46, 48–54, 57–66, 69–72, 75, 76, 79, 81, 85–8, 92, 93, 96–112, 116, 118–25, 129, 131–4, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143, 147, 149–52, ISBN: 978 1 85709 556 2 155, 156, 161, 162, 166, 167, 169–71, 173–80, 182, 183, 188–91, ISSN: 0140 7430 194–202, 205–8, 210, 216, 217. 1038962 © National Maritime Museum, London: 1, 32. Publisher: jan Green © Royal Academy of Arts, London: 25, 26. Project Manager: Claire Young © Tate 2015: 16. Editor: Lise Connellan Design: Libanus Press © The Wallace Collection, London: 4–6, 15, 30, 44, 55, 73, 74, 80, Picture Research: Suzanne Bosman 83, 84, 94, 95, 117, 153, 154, 157, 163, 165, 168, 172, 187, Production: jane Hyne and Penny Le Tissier 204, 211–14. © The Wallace Collection, photo: The National Gallery, London: 8, 9, Repro by Alta Image 12, 24, 42, 43, 47, 56, 67, 68, 77, 82, 89, 91,113–15, 126–8, 135, Printed in Italy by Conti Tipocolor 136, 141, 144, 146, 148, 158–60, 164, 181, 184, 185, 192, 193, 203, 209, 215. © The Wallace Collection, London, photo Anna Sandèn: 130. NEW HAVEN FRONT COVER © Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut: 10, 11, Joshua Reynolds, Lady Cockburn and her Three Eldest Sons (NG 2077), 19, 186. 1773 (detail) OXFORD TITLE PA GE © Copyright in this Photograph Reserved to the Ashmolean Museum, TOP LEFT: Joshua Reynolds, Mrs Mary Robinson (‘Perdita’), Oxford: 3. The Wallace Collection (P45), 1783–4 (detail). National Gallery Company TOP RIGHT: Joshua Reynolds, Colonel Tarleton, The National Gallery ST PETERSBURG (NG 5985), 1782 (detail). © With permission from The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, London BOTTOM LEFT: Joshua Reynolds, Miss jane Bowles, The Wallace courtesy of Kamilla Kalinina and Elizaveta Renne; 22. Collection (P36), 1775–6 (detail). BOTTOM RIGHT: Joshua Reynolds, Mrs Susanna Hoare and Child, The Wallace Collection (P32), 1763–4 (detail). Distributed by Yale University Press 001-005 TB35 Prelims_26.11.indd 2 09/12/2014 18:42 001-005 TB35 Prelims_26.11.indd 1 26/11/2014 14:36 This edition of the Technical Bulletin has been supported by the American Friends of the National Gallery, London National Gallery Technical Bulletin with a generous donation from Mrs Charles Wrightsman volume 35 Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection Series editor: Ashok Roy Photographic credits © National Gallery Company Limited 2014 BOSTON All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted © 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 18, 78. in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including CAMBRIDGE photocopy, recording, or any storage and retrieval system, without © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: 7. prior permission in writing from the publisher. EDINBURGH Articles published online on the National Gallery website Scottish National Gallery may be downloaded for private study only. © National Galleries of Scotland: 21. HOUSTON First published in Great Britain in 2014 by © The Menil Collection, Houston, photo Hickey-Robertson, National Gallery Company Limited Houston: 17. St Vincent House, 30 Orange Street London WC2H 7HH INDIANAPOLIS © Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana: 145. www.nationalgallery. co.uk LONDON British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. © The British Museum: 90, 138. © The National Gallery, London: 2, 13, 14, 20, 23, 27–9, 31, 33–41, A catalogue record is available from the British Library. 45, 46, 48–54, 57–66, 69–72, 75, 76, 79, 81, 85–8, 92, 93, 96–112, 116, 118–25, 129, 131–4, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143, 147, 149–52, ISBN: 978 1 85709 556 2 155, 156, 161, 162, 166, 167, 169–71, 173–80, 182, 183, 188–91, ISSN: 0140 7430 194–202, 205–8, 210, 216, 217. 1038962 © National Maritime Museum, London: 1, 32. Publisher: jan Green © Royal Academy of Arts, London: 25, 26. Project Manager: Claire Young © Tate 2015: 16. Editor: Lise Connellan Design: Libanus Press © The Wallace Collection, London: 4–6, 15, 30, 44, 55, 73, 74, 80, Picture Research: Suzanne Bosman 83, 84, 94, 95, 117, 153, 154, 157, 163, 165, 168, 172, 187, Production: jane Hyne and Penny Le Tissier 204, 211–14. © The Wallace Collection, photo: The National Gallery, London: 8, 9, Repro by Alta Image 12, 24, 42, 43, 47, 56, 67, 68, 77, 82, 89, 91,113–15, 126–8, 135, Printed in Italy by Conti Tipocolor 136, 141, 144, 146, 148, 158–60, 164, 181, 184, 185, 192, 193, 203, 209, 215. © The Wallace Collection, London, photo Anna Sandèn: 130. NEW HAVEN FRONT COVER © Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut: 10, 11, Joshua Reynolds, Lady Cockburn and her Three Eldest Sons (NG 2077), 19, 186. 1773 (detail) OXFORD TITLE PA GE © Copyright in this Photograph Reserved to the Ashmolean Museum, TOP LEFT: Joshua Reynolds, Mrs Mary Robinson (‘Perdita’), Oxford: 3. The Wallace Collection (P45), 1783–4 (detail). National Gallery Company TOP RIGHT: Joshua Reynolds, Colonel Tarleton, The National Gallery ST PETERSBURG (NG 5985), 1782 (detail). © With permission from The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, London BOTTOM LEFT: Joshua Reynolds, Miss jane Bowles, The Wallace courtesy of Kamilla Kalinina and Elizaveta Renne; 22. Collection (P36), 1775–6 (detail). BOTTOM RIGHT: Joshua Reynolds, Mrs Susanna Hoare and Child, The Wallace Collection (P32), 1763–4 (detail). Distributed by Yale University Press 001-005 TB35 Prelims_26.11.indd 2 09/12/2014 18:42 001-005 TB35 Prelims_26.11.indd 1 26/11/2014 14:36 Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection idiosyncratic paint formulations, sometimes now only a number of people have been most helpful or have present as trace amounts, or known only from their contributed directly in a variety of essential ways, surviving degradation products in the paint fi lm. including: Rachel Billinge, Susan Foister, Larry Keith, Perhaps more importantly, the instruments available for Joseph Padfield, Nicholas Penny, Marika Spring and analyses are suitable for interpreting paint structures Nelly von Aderkas. that are unusually multilayered and constitutionally ASHOK ROY In recent years we have adopted a policy of publishing Dr Christoph Vogtherr, Director of the Wallace Collec- highly complex, a feature of Reynolds’s technique in Editor, National Gallery Technical Bulletin volumes of the National Gallery Technical Bulletin devoted tion. Somewhat later, when fully established, day-to-day general that has proved more than equal to his reputa- to special subjects, with annual issues appearing more responsibility and management was taken on by Dr Lucy tion among his contemporaries in this respect, and a occasionally offering opportunities for authors to pub- Davis, Curator of Old Master Pictures, who has been the genuine challenge to the skill and ingenuity of paintings lish their technical research on any subject connected project’s coordinator until the conclusion of the work in conservators to negotiate. to the National Gallery Collection, however diverse 2014. The generous support of the Paul Mellon Centre Although the National Gallery possesses fewer the point of interest. Two recent special issues embody for Studies in British Art has made the project possible. paintings by Reynolds in its permanent collection – fi ve this policy: that devoted to Leonardo da Vinci and his Other Benefactors of the Wallace Collection have in all – these span an interesting and representative associates (Volume 32) published in 2011, and in 2013 significantly contributed towards it. period of the painter’s career, from Captain Robert Orme a Technical Bulletin on the early part of Titian’s career At the outset it was agreed with Nicholas Penny, (NG 681) of 1756 to Lord Heathfield of Gibraltar (NG (Volume 34). Plans are in hand to publish, in 2015, a Director of the National Gallery, that an essential part 111), not exhibited until 1788. These pictures have second volume of technical research on Titian, dealing of the project plan would be close collaboration with undergone sporadic technical analysis by the Scientific with his painting technique after 1540. the National Gallery’s Scientific Department for the Department over the years, including the publication of This new volume of the Technical Bulletin – number technical and analytical study of the twelve Wallace the fi rst instrumental analyses of Reynolds’s paint media 35 – is also a special issue, with an unusual and Collection pictures, which would be brought in sequence using gas chromatography (GC), by John Mills and innovative theme. It is devoted wholly to the work of to the Conservation Department at Trafalgar Square for Raymond White in Volume 1 of the Technical Bulletin Sir Joshua Reynolds, his technical practices and, partic- technical examination, analysis and documentation by in 1977.
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