Technical Bulletin 35
The National Gallery Technical Bulletin is a unique record of research carried out at the National Gallery. Drawing on the combined expertise of curators, conservators and scientists, it brings together a wealth of information about artists’ materials, practices and techniques.
The painting techniques of the great society painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), first president of the Royal Academy, are notorious for their unstable mixtures of materials, particularly in his paint media. Reynolds’s spirited response to his critics – and some disappointed clients – that ‘all good pictures crack’ reveals a problematic technique that manifested itself during his lifetime.
The legacy of Reynolds’s unsound painting practice is a challenge to conservators who use great caution in treating these vulnerable paintings. This special issue of the National Gallery Technical Bulletin is the first thorough account of Reynolds’s painting materials and techniques, resulting from a multidisciplinary research collaboration between the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection. The publication of this Technical Bulletin anticipates the exhibition Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint to be held at the Wallace Collection, London (12 March–7 June 2015).
Volume 35 Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements, Ashok Roy
- Joshua Reynolds at the National Gallery, Susan Foister
- Joshua Reynolds at the Wallace Collection, Lucy Davis
- Practice Makes Imperfect: Joshua Reynolds’s Painting Technique, Alexandra Gent and Ashok Roy
- Catalogue, Alexandra Gent, Rachel Morrison and Ashok Roy
- Timeline
- Notes and Bibliography
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technical bulletin, 35, Roy, Joshua Reynolds, National Gallery, Wallace Collection.Product Code | 1038962 |
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Colour Illustrations | 230 |
Dimensions | 297 x 210 mm |
Format | Paperback |
GTIN | 9781857095562 |
ISBN | 9781857095562 |
Pages | 128 |
Published | Jan 2015 |
Publisher | National Gallery Company |
Series Editor | Ashok Roy |
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