Joshua Reynolds brown plaque

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Standing at this corner of Leicester Square, you're at the site where one of Britain's most celebrated portrait painters both lived and breathed his last. Sir Joshua Reynolds established his grand home and studio at No. 47 in 1760, transforming it into the epicenter of London's 18th-century art worl...

Location

Fanum House (site of 47), Leicester Square, Westminster, WC2

Inscription

Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 portrait painter lived and died in a house on this site