Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… 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 1730, thanks to artists such as William Hogarth, Gawen Hamilton, and Charles Philips. … in detail, facilitating the portrayal of tea parties, assemblies and card games. Objects > Art & Luxury Keywords Conversation Painting Portrait Tea-table As the practices, objects and sites of sociability flourished in early eighteenth-century Britain, so a new mode of portraiture was developed to encapsulate them: the conversation piece. 1 Whilst this category became more capacious as the century progressed, and key characteristics of …
Conversation | Painting | Portrait | Tea-table
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