"The Death of Cardinal Beaufort" depicts a scene from ... and at that time too much heat would have been applied." The fiend is depicted in the shadows and painted with dark colors, which dry ...

“The Death of Cardinal Beaufort” by Sir Joshua Reynolds was ... At the time, one critic from The Times of London suggested that “some fiend had been laying siege to Sir Joshua’s taste.” ...

Referred to by the Trust as a “fiend,” an evil spirit or demon ... which was titled “The Death of Cardinal Beaufort.” Specifically, the painting shows a scene from Shakespeare’s ...

Reynolds painted such a “fiend” into the work ... there was an apparent attempt to remove the figure. The Death of Cardinal Beaufort was held by the Shakespeare Gallery until 1805, when ...

A devilish figure that disappeared from a celebrated and controversial 18th Century painting for decades has been rediscovered in a recent restoration. Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a demon lurking ...

The sinister face hovers above the head of a dying clergyman in The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, painted in 1789. Fake-or-Fortune-style reveals such as this, where Reynolds’s hollow-eyed fiend ...

The painting is titled "The Death of Cardinal Beaufort", and has recently undergone some conversation work by the National Trust. The figure, or as the National Trust calls it, the fiend ...