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Golden Age of English Painting from Reynolds to Turner – Paris exhibition



The exhibition, The Golden Age of English Painting from Reynolds to Turner, appears at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris from 11 September 2019 to 16 February 2020. The exhibition is held in conjunction with the Tate Gallery of London. 

Through Tate’s masterpieces, on loan to the Luxembourg Museum, the exhibition aims to highlight a key moment in English painting.

The exhibition covers the reign of King George III from 1760 to 1820 due to its period of transformation in art. The English painters of this period were searching for a distinctive British identity. With the creation of artists’ societies and the emergence of public exhibitions, art came out of the private sphere and into the public domain. In the emerging consumer society, portraits and landscapes were in demand.  

Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 - Colonel Acland & Lord Sydney: The Archers 1769

Joseph MW Turner 1775-1851 - The Thames near the Walton Bridges 1805

George Romney 1734-1802 - Tom Hayley as Robin Goodfellow 1789-92n

William Blake 1757-1827 - Homer and the Ancient Poets 1824-27

Francis Cotes 1726-1770 - Portrait of Paul Sandby 1761

George Stubbs 1724-1806 - A Couple of Foxhounds 1792

Richard Wilson 1714-1782 - The Thames near Marble Hill, Twickenham c. 1762

Joseph MW Turner 1775-1851 - The Destruction of Sodom c. 1805


Joseph Martin 1789-1854 - The Destruction of Pompei & Herculaneum 1822

Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 - c. Miss Crewe 1775

Daniel Stringer 1754-1808 - Portrait of the Artist 1776


Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 - Lady Bampfylde 1776-77

Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 - The Hon. Miss Monckton 1777-78


Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 - Mr Huddesford & Mr Bampfylde c. 1778

Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle  1769

Francis Cotes 1726-1770 - Portrait of a Lady 1768




Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 - Master Crewe as Henry VIII c. 1775

Joseph Wright 1734-1797 - Three Children of Richard Arkwright with a Goat 1791

Johan Zoffany 1733-1810 - Mr & Mrs Dalton with their niece Mary de Heulle c. 1765-68

Francis Wheatley 1747-1801 - A Family Group in a Landscape c. 1775






MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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