A portrait painting aims to be specific. A genre painting, on the other hand, is — well, generic. ... Where: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood When: ...

A joint purchase of Joshua Reynolds' heralded "Portrait of 'Mai,'" between London's National Portrait Gallery and the Getty, was at first nixed.

In a highly unusual move, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the National Portrait Gallery in London will jointly buy Joshua Reynolds’s “Portrait of Mai (Omai),” considered one of ...

Joshua Reynolds’s famed Portrait of Mai (around 1776)—which was jointly acquired by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2023—is ...