Microfibre with a detail from the work of the English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), "Le colonel Acland et Lord Sydney : Les archers", 1769. Oil on canvas. Height 236; length 180 cm. Purchased in 2005, with the support of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund supported by the Wolfson Foundation and other donors, London, Tate. This large double portrait depicts two young aristocrats, Dudley Alexander Sydney Cosby, Lord Sydney (1732-1774), on the left, and Colonel John Dyke Acland (1746-1778) leaping to the right. Dressed in almost historical clothing
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