Nathaniel Hone the Elder courts controversy when his satirical painting The Conjuror is seen to ridicule Sir
Joshua Reynolds and attack the English fashion for copying
Italian Renaissance painting, and is rejected by the
Royal Academy of Arts (ostensibly on the grounds that also includes a nude caricature of fellow Academician
Angelica Kauffman, which Hone subsequently paints out). To show his reputation is undamaged, Hone organises a one-man retrospective in
St Martin's Lane, London – the first such solo exhibition of an artist’s work.
Nathaniel Hone the Elder courts controversy when his satirical painting The Conjuror is seen to ridicule Sir
Joshua Reynolds and attack the English fashion for copying
Italian Renaissance painting, and is rejected by the
Royal Academy of Arts (ostensibly on the grounds that also includes a nude caricature of fellow Academician
Angelica Kauffman, which Hone subsequently paints out). To show his reputation is undamaged, Hone organises a one-man retrospective in
St Martin's Lane, London – the first such solo exhibition of an artist’s work.