… Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.58, c.1735. Résumé 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 … Philips. Portrayal of the sitters at full length allowed amplification of the physical gestures and interactions of sociability. Their reduced scale also meant that accompanying objects and settings could be represented in detail, … games. Objects > Art & Luxury Mots-clés 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 …