Joshua ReynoldsBritish, 1723–1792The Cottagers
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Where is “The Cottagers” now? Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. Whether it is on view today is unknown.
Detroit, United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 55.278
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: Detroit Institute of Arts — Joshua Reynolds · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In the life of Joshua Reynolds
The whole life1768–1792
Post: President of the Royal Academy of Arts
1769–1790
The “Discourses”: lectures at the Royal Academy
Reynolds delivers a series of lectures at the Academy, the Discourses, remembered for their sensitivity and perception; in one of them he expresses the opinion that invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of images previously gathered and deposited in the memory. In a speech of 1776 he declares that the principles of art are grounded in reason — a declaration of the rationalism of English academic art; the Discourses are published in London in 1778.
1789
Loss of sight in his left eye
In 1789 Reynolds loses the sight of his left eye, undergoes a painful operation, wears a bandage and is forced into retirement.
