1. Several types of ambiguity: historical portraiture and history painting; 2. The infant academy; 3. 'Patriarchs, Prophets and Saviours': Reynolds as a history painter 1770–1773; 4. 'Fashion's fickle claim': high art 1173–1781; 5. The labours of Hercules 1782–1789; 6. The 'modern Apelles' and the modern Maecenas; 7. 'In search of the True Briton'.
The first book to be devoted to this aspect of Sir Joshua Reynolds's work.
"The author has conducted exhaustive research in a wide range of historical and literary sources, and he makes particularly good use of the numerous contemporary reviews and commentaries in the public press...Postle's book is a significant addition to Reynold's scholarship...Postle deserves credit for the clarity of his jargon-free prose and the thoroughness of his research which will serve to provides the groundwork for any future study of the development of history painting in Britain." Albion
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