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Graham Reynolds in 1990

Arthur Graham Reynolds CVO OBE FBA (10 January 1914 – 13 October 2013) was an English art historian who was Keeper of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was a leading expert on portrait miniatures and the art of John Constable, for whose works he wrote the catalogue raisonné. Reynolds's approach exemplified traditional scholarship and connoisseurship and he was fiercely opposed to the New Art History of the 1970s.

Early life[edit]

Arthur Graham Reynolds was born in Highgate,[1] London, in 1914.[2] He attended Highgate School on a scholarship and subsequently went up to Queens' College, Cambridge, to read mathematics but switched to English literature.

Career[edit]

A volume from Graham Reynolds's catalogue raisonnéofJohn Constable.[3]

Reynolds joined the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1937, rising to the position of Keeper of the department of prints and drawings (replacing James Laver) and also of paintings with only a break during the Second World War when he worked for the Ministry of Home Security (1939–1945). He became a leading expert on portrait miniatures and the art of John Constable.[4] In 1968 he was a visiting professor at Yale University.[5]

Early in his career Reynolds wrote a résumé of the life and work of Thomas Bewick (1949), a work on Elizabethan and Jacobean costume and a book on English portrait miniatures (1952) that was revised and reissued by Cambridge University Press in 1988. In 1953 he produced a survey of Victorian painting. He wrote two of the Thames & Hudson World of Art series, Turner in 1969 and A concise history of watercolours in 1971. In 1960 he produced a catalogue of paintings by Constable in the V&A, which was issued in a revised edition in 1973. His catalogue raisonne of the paintings of John Constable was published in two parts (two volumes each) in 1984 and 1996, divided at 1816, the year of Constable's marriage to Maria Bicknell.[4]

In 1947, Reynolds curated an exhibition at the V&A to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard using the extensive collection of miniatures at the museum. The exhibition helped to differentiate Hilliard from Isaac Oliver and Reynolds wrote the accompanying monograph and catalogue.[4]

Reynolds retired from the V&A in 1974 and moved to Suffolk with his wife.[6] He remained active in art circles, and was appointed a member of the advisory council of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in which capacity he served from 1977 to 1984. He was implacably opposed to the New Art History of the 1970s and later which he saw as threatening traditional scholarship and connoisseurship. In 1983 he chose paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Constable's England.[4]

Personal life[edit]

At the Ministry of Home Security, Reynolds met the artist and printmaker Daphne Dent (1918–2002)[5] whom he married in the City of London in 1943.[7] Outside art, Reynolds had a talent for palindromic poems, some of which were published.[4]

Reynolds was appointed OBE in 1984, CVO in 2000 and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1993.[4]

Death[edit]

Graham Reynolds died on 13 October 2013 at age 99.[8]

Selected publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reynolds, (Arthur) Graham. Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  • ^ (Arthur) Graham Reynolds; Daphne Reynolds (née Dent). National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  • ^ Reynolds, Graham. The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, 1996) ISBN 9780300063370
  • ^ a b c d e f Graham Reynolds. The Times, 24 October 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2016. (subscription required)
  • ^ a b Daphne Reynolds. David Buckman, The Independent, 23 December 2002. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  • ^ The Daphne Reynolds Archive. Walton and Bovill Fine Art. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  • ^ England & Wales marriages 1837–2008 Transcription.. Retrieved 14 March 2016. (subscription required)
  • ^ Graham Reynolds. Art History News, 24 October 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

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