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WADDESDON MANOR

Sir Joshua Reynolds at Waddesdon

This trail celebrates the life Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), a prolific painter who transformed British painting with portraits and subject pictures that engaged their audience’s knowledge, imagination, memory and emotions. As an eloquent teacher and art theorist, Reynolds used his role at the head of the Royal Academy of Arts in London to raise the status of art a...

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Introduction
Waddesdon Manor
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Captain John Hayes St Leger
Red Drawing Room
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Lady Jane Halliday (née Lady Jane Tollemache)
Grey Drawing Room
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1:01
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Mrs Abington as The Comic Muse
Grey Drawing Room
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1:20
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Lady Anne Luttrell, Duchess of Cumberland
Grey Drawing Room
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Miss Fordyce (later Mrs Greenwood)
The Baron's Room
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Miss Theophila Gwatkin or Simplicity
The Baron's Room
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Emma Assheton-Smith, Mrs Robert Scott of Danesfield
The Baron's Room
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Mrs Sheridan in the character of St Cecilia
The Baron's Room
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Thaïs
Morning Room
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A Fortune-Teller
Bedroom Corridor
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David Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy
Fountain Lobby
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Mary Darby, Mrs. Thomas Robinson, known as ‘Perdita’
Fountain Lobby
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Joanna Leigh, Mrs Richard Bennett Lloyd
Fountain Lobby
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