J. Reynolds, Leicester Fields, to Mr Brown

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/SEC/2/28/6

Title

J. Reynolds, Leicester Fields, to Mr Brown

Date

Apr 1790

Level

Item

Extent & medium

3pp

Previous reference codes

1188

Content Description

Copy letter from Sir Joshua Reynolds to Brown, stating that Brown had not produced any new evidence in his last letter to induce him to reconsider the matter of the removal of his portrait of the King from the exhibition and maintaining the principle that only worthy portraits should be exhibited, irrespective of the dignity of the sitter.