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TITLE: PAINTING - Lord Heathfield - BAROQUE PERIOD IN ENGLAND

DESCRIPTION: JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Painter of heroes. 1st Pres. of Royal Academy of Art. Wrote Discourses: book about his beliefs about art; critical of Dutch; "The general nature is always superior to the particular nature of the Dutch." Portrait is of Lord Heathfield, hero with keys to the city, who conquered Gibraltar. Many of Reynolds' paintings have smoke from cannon fire.