From the NS archive: Sir Joshua Reynolds
18 August 1923: The battered reputation of British art’s first grandee and the founding president of the Royal Academy.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
18 August 1923: The battered reputation of British art’s first grandee and the founding president of the Royal Academy.
By John Alton