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With them came a new perspective on childhood, wilderness, rural life in an apology of relaxation and bucolic innocence. These themes enrich the fashionable tradition of family and lineage portraits with intimate accents.
Gainsborough captures in his light the thrills of the soul, Reynolds tells us the story of a being suspended in his time before Turner comes to set the canvas on fire ... the immortal talents of an Eden with the vibrant colors of the proud Albion.
The Golden Age of English painting Reynolds to Turner Masterpieces of the Tate Britain September 11, 2019 - February 16, 2020 Luxembourg Museum
19, rue Vaugirard, 75006 Paris
Joshua Reynolds
Lady Bampfylde
around 1776-1778
oil on canvas
238.1 × 148 cm
Bequeathed by Alfred de Rothschild in 1918 United Kingdom, London, Tate
© Tate 2019
