Images from What Jane Saw, an online recreation created by Professor Janine Barchas and her team at University of Texas, Austin, of the 1813 London exhibition of paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds at the British Institution, as viewed by Jane Austen. Discussed by Mary Kisler and Kim Hill on the Saturday Morning programme of 5 October 2013.
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), British Institution, Pall Mall, 1808. Aquatint on paper.
Pub. 1st April 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts.
Alfred Joseph Woolmer (1805-1892)
Interior of the British Institution (Old Master Exhibition, Summer 1832),1833
Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Scarlett Davis (1804-1845), The Interior of the British Institution Gallery, 1829. Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792),
No. 2 Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse
Current title: Sarah Siddons (1755-1831)
Oil on canvas Location: Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino, CA
Joshua Reynolds
No. 9 Portrait of a Chinese boy
Current title: Wang-Y-Tong
Oil on canvas, Location: Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent
Joshua Reynolds
No. 12 The fortune-teller
Oil on canvas, Location: Waddesdon, The National Trust
Joshua Reynolds
No. 14 Portrait of Lady Melbourne and Child
Current title: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, with her son, Peniston (1770-1805)
Oil on canvas, Location: The Trustees of the Firle Estate Settlement
Joshua Reynolds
No. 31 Count Ugolino and his children in the dungeon, as described by Danté in the 33d Canto of the Inferno
Current title: Ugolino and His Children in the Dungeon
Oil on canvas, Location: Knole, National Trust
Joshua Reynolds
No. 34 Infant Jupiter
Oil on canvas, Location: destroyed
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