Inaugural Reynolds Lecture with Christopher Le Brun
Join Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy, who will deliver the inaugural lecture on this special opening night of Great Artists | Great Teachers. Christopher will give us an insight to the renewal and redevelopment of the Royal Academy for its 250th anniversary and beyond.
Christopher, a painter, sculptor and print maker was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011. He is the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Plymouth has won over £300,000 in grant funding to bring home incredibly important items by historic portrait painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Staff at the City Museum and Art Gallery are celebrating after successfully securing £326,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the acquisition of a Reynolds’ first self-portrait, used by the artist to advertise his Plymouth Dock studio in...