Man pleads guilty to attacking Joshua Reynolds painting with hammer. “Mark Paton, 44, was arrested Wednesday after repeatedly hitting Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of 18th-century diarist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.”
Grant Barrett
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Man pleads guilty to attacking Joshua Reynolds painting with hammer. “Mark Paton, 44, was arrested Wednesday after repeatedly hitting Joshua Reynolds’ portrait of 18th-century diarist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.”