This standard edition of the Discourses on Art delivered by Sir Joshua Reynolds is now reissued in a new format and with improved illustrations. It has long been recognized as a fundamental text for the study of eighteenth-century English painting, and this edition is generally considered to be the definitive one.Robert R. Wark was Curator of Art Collections at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art