The golden age of the english painting from Reynolds to Turner

September 11, 2019 February 16, 2020 Exhibition has ended

This exhibition, showing a selection of masterpieces from Tate Britain, highlights a key period in the history of painting in England, from the 1760s to around 1820. It will present an overview capturing all the originality and diversity of this time. It takes the visitor from the founding of the Royal Academy, with artists such as Reynolds and Gainsborough, to the turning point in the early 19th century, notably with Turner. The public will rediscover the great classics of British art here, all too rarely exhibited in France.

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Reynolds Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney Cushion cover

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This cushion cover is inspired by the work of the English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The archers, 1769. Oil on canvas. H. 236; L. 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 on a life-size scale two young aristocrats, Dudley Alexander Sydney Cosby, Lord Sydney (1732-1774), shown on the left, and Colonel John Dyke Acland (1746-1778) leaping forward on the right. Dressed in quasi-historical clothing invented by the artist, they are mimicking a medieval or Renaissance hunt; the dead game they leave in their trail underlining their noble blood and aristocratic right to hunt. The painting celebrates the men's friendship by linking it to an imaginary chivalric past, when young lords pursued 'manly' activities together against a backdrop of ancient forest. The two subjects run and take aim in perfect rhythmic harmony; at one with each other and joint masters over nature.

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