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• The Georgian Face
  • Gallery 1: Looking; looking away
  • Gallery 2: Portraiture and Allegory
  • Gallery 3: The Faces of War
  • Gallery 4: Contemplation
  • Gallery 5: The Painter of Fashion
  • Gallery 6: Childhood
  • Gallery 7: Light and Shadow
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Reynolds’s works often show men and women in contemplative poses. This gallery excavates this important strand of his portraiture and suggests some of the virtues and qualities – ranging from studious introspection to a ‘pleasing melancholy’ – conveyed by this pensive form of portraiture.

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