Sir Joshua Reynolds, 'Colonel Tarleton', 1782

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Exhibition history

• 2015
  Fighting History

  Tate Britain

  9 June 2015 - 13 September 2015

Bibliography

• 1782
  'Contemporary Account of Tarleton's Return after Defeat', Morning Post, 1782
• 1782
  'Critical Reception of Painting at RA Exh. 1782', Public Advertiser, 1782
• 1782
  'Critical Reception of Painting at RA Exhibition, 1782', St. James's Chronicle, 1782
• 1782
  'Cornwallis' Praise for Tarleton from Field of Battle', Westminster Gazette, 1782
• 1782
  'Vignette after Portrait and Account of Tarleton's Exploits', Westminster Magazine, 1782
• 1782
  London, Royal Academy Library: Reynolds' Sitter Book, 1782
• 1784
  Liverpool, Liverpool Record Office, Roscoe Papers 920.ROS.3112: Letter from Reynolds to William Roscoe, 2 October 1784
• 1784
  New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Reynolds MS 15: Letter from Reynolds to William Roscoe, 16 October 1784
• 1787
  B. Tarleton, History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America, London 1787
• 1787
  'Strictures on Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton's "History", 1787, from Lieutenant Roderick Mackenzie', Morning Post, 1787
• 1794
  P. Pindar, Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians, for M,DCC,LXXXII, London 1794
• 1797
  'Obituary Notice of Mrs Jane Tarleton, part 2', Gentleman's Magazine, 1797, pp. 615-6
• 1873
  M.M. Boatner, Biographical Dictionary of the American War of Independence, London 1873
• 1877
  J.W.C. Carr, The Grosvenor Gallery Illustrated Catalogue: Winter Exhibition (exh. cat. Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-8), London 1877
• 1899
  A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A., 4 vols, London 1899
• 1919
  L. Bettany, Edward Jerningham and His Friends, London 1919
• 1935
  F.G. Stephens and D.M. George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, London 1935
• 1937
  H. Walpole, Horace Walpole Correspondence, ed. W.S. Lewis, 48 vols, New Haven 1937
• 1955
  The National Gallery, The National Gallery: 1938 - 1954, London 1955
• 1958
  R.D. Bass, The Green Dragoon: The Lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson, London 1958
• 1959
  Davies, Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: British School, 2nd edn (revised), London 1959
• 1964
  P. Mackesy, The War for America 1755-1783, London 1964
• 1968
  M. Cormack, 'The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds', The Walpole Society, XLII, 1970, pp. 105-69
• 1975
  E. Wright, The War of American Independence, London 1975
• 1976
  H. Potterton, Reynolds and Gainsborough, Themes and Painters in the National Gallery 2, London 1976
• 1977
  J. Mills and R. White, 'Analyses of Paint Media', National Gallery Technical Bulletin, I, 1977, pp. 57-9
• 1978
  J. Ingamells, Mrs Robinson and her Portraits, Wallace Collection Monographs 1, London 1978
• 1981
  J. Reynolds, Discourses on Art, ed. R.R. Wark, London 1981
• 1984
  W.Y. Carman, 'Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, LXII, 1984, pp. 127-31
• 1986
  R.G. Thorne (ed.), Character of Tarleton, London 1986
• 1986
  J.T. Hayes, 'Reflections on Reynolds at the Royal Academy Two Hundred Years on', Apollo, CXXIII/290, 1986, pp. 246-53
• 1987
  R. Simon, The Portrait in Britain and America: With a Biographical Dictionary of Portrait Painters 1680-1914, Oxford 1987
• 1988
  J.D. Stewart, 'Pigalle, the Antique, et al.,: The Genesis of Reynolds's Banastre Tarleton', Gazette des beaux-arts, CXII, 1988, pp. 261-8
• 1994
  G. Perini, 'On Reynolds's Art of Borrowing: Two More Italian Sources', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVI/1090, 1994, pp. 433-70
• 1997
  J. Richardson, Looking at Pictures: An Introduction to Art for Young People Through the Collection of the National Gallery, London 1997
• 1998
  J. Egerton, The British School, London 1998
• 2000
  Egerton, Judy, National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings, revised edn, London 2000
• 2000
  D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven 2000
• 2001

  C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001

• 2003
  I. McIntyre, Joshua Reynolds: The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy, London 2003
• 2004
  S. Adams, Sir Banastre Tarleton, Leintwardine 2004
• 2005
  W. Bennett, 'Americans to Pay Millions to Recapture Battle Flags', Telegraph, 2005
• 2005
  M. Postle et al., Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity (exh. cat. Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 13 February - 1 May 2005; Tate Britain, 26 May - 18 September 2005), London 2005
• 2006
  S. Kiffer, 'Revolutionary Colours', Sotheby's Preview, 2006, pp. 102-3
• 2006
  H. Mount, 'American Revolution Flags Sold for £9m by Briton', Telegraph, 2006
• 2006
  Sotheby's, Four Battleflags of the Revolution: Captured by Lt.-Col. Banestre Tarleton in 1779 and 1780, the Property of Capt. Christopher Tarleton, New York, 14 June 2006