Statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Annenberg Courtyard, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J, UK

            I wonder what Sir Joshua (1723-92), founding member and first president of the Royal Academy, would have made of Egon Schiele's 'Two Women Embracing' (1915).  Schiele is one of my very favourite artists.  Reynolds... isn't.

The statue, by Alfred Drury RA, was unveiled in the main courtyard of Burlington House (home of the Royal Academy and a number of learned societies) in 1931.
The poster, advertising the Royal Academy's 'Treasures From Budapest' exhibition of works from the Szépművészeti Múzeum, led me to expect rather more 19th/20th Century art than a single room within a large exhibition dominated by earlier, religious art, which I'm afraid I found a little disappointing.
   

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Piccadilly (show map)

Taken on: November 21, 2010

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