Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… 1728-31. 3 . For one of the most recent accounts of this painting, see Elizabeth Einberg, William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016), p. 53-6, cat. 20. Having started the … earlier portraiture. The Childs, their family and friends are posed in a specific setting, described in a later sale catalogue as ‘A View of the Interior of the Ball Room of Wanstead House, with a Numerous Assemblage of Ladies and …
Conversation | Painting | Portrait | Tea-table
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