joshua reynolds

Talk: From Reynolds to Le Brun: Making the Academy New Again

Inaugural Reynolds Lecture with Christopher Le Brun

Join Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy, who will deliver the inaugural lecture on this special opening night of Great Artists | Great Teachers. Christopher will give us an insight to the renewal and redevelopment of the Royal Academy for its 250th anniversary and beyond.

Christopher, a painter, sculptor and print maker was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011. He is the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Thursday 27 Sep Time: 19:00 Free admission

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Plymouth wins funding to bring Reynolds' items home

Plymouth has won over £300,000 in grant funding to bring home incredibly important items by historic portrait painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Staff at the City Museum and Art Gallery are celebrating after successfully securing £326,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the acquisition of a Reynolds’ first self-portrait, used by the artist to advertise his Plymouth Dock studio in...