Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, The John Howard McFadden Collection, M1928-1-13, 1728-31. Image William Hogarth, ‘Portrait of a Family’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.58, c.1735. Abstract At around the same time as the places, practices and objects of sociability began to flourish, British portraitists started to offer a new mode of portraiture expressive of this culture. After a tentative start in the 1720s, the ‘conversation piece’ took off around …
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