Did Joshua Reynolds Paint his Pictures? The Transatlantic Work of Picturing in an Age of Chymical Reproduction

In the spring of 1787, King George III visited the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House on the Strand in London's West End. The king had come to see the first series of the Seven Sacrements painted by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) for Roman patron Cassiano dal Pozzo in the later 1630's. [...] Ritual fluids proceed from the right, passing in relay from the cerulean pitcher on the illuminated tripod table to a green-garbed youth then to the gold flagon for which the central bearded elder reaches, to be rubbed as oily film on the invalid's eyelids...