Reynolds vs Gainsborough in the Summer Exhibition

Part one of a five-part series.
Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough were Georgian art superstars and friendly rivals. The RA's annual Summer Exhibition was the perfect setting for them to go head to head, as curator Mark Hallett, Director of Studies at Paul Mellon Centre, explains. See their paintings, and many other spectacular works from 250 years of the Summer Exhibition, until 19 August 2018 in The Great Spectacle: www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhib...
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Interesting. Maybe worth a visit if I make it down south again this year. Once this oppressive heat has eased off a bit...