The Intimate Portrait: drawings, miniatures and pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence, British Museum, 5th March – 31st May 09
| March 5, 2009 | to | May 30, 2009 |
This exhibition explores a fascinating but relatively unknown type of portraiture that flourished in Georgian and Regency Britain between the 1730s and 1830s.
It features intimate portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Downman, Richard Cosway, David Wilkie and many others, all drawn from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Museum, many never exhibited before.
Free