In 1769 Joshua Reynolds painted this portrait of two teenagers named Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney. Archery was a popular and stylish sport at the time, and Reynolds makes the two men seem very confident with a bow and arrow!

In 2005 fifteen teenagers worked with the artist Lucy Gunning to make a new work of art to show at Tate Britain. What they made is short film about archery, documenting their attempts to be accomplished with a bow and arrow.

The film explored devices used by Reynolds to portray people of his time, such as idealism and symbolism. In making the film, the group considered the social and cultural context of the painting and made parallels with contemporary newspapers, the internet and television.