Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… ‘The Strong Family’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 44.159, 1732. Image Gawen Hamilton, ‘The Brothers Clarke with other Gentlemen taking Wine’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.319, c.1730-5. Image Arthur Devis, … sale catalogue as ‘A View of the Interior of the Ball Room of Wanstead House, with a Numerous Assemblage of Ladies and Gentlemen’. 7 This was a vast space in a vast mansion, running the entire breadth of one end of the house, illuminated …
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