The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life'The Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in 17th-century Dutch painting, the genre was extended to include sporting events and 'Grand Tourists', and reached its apogee in the 18th-century in the masterpieces created by Johann Zoffany for his English patrons, including George III. This new publication, the first on this subject for over thirty years, presents early Dutch and French genre paintings against their successors in the informal portraiture of Stubbs and Hogarth, as well as iconic works by Zoffany. It provides a unique opportunity to connect the study of 'the conversation' in 18th-century English art to its 17th-century European predecessors. |
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... Earl of Pembroke , the Earl of Montgomery ( later 4th Earl of Pembroke ) , and Jeffery Hudson , c.1635 ; oil on canvas . Acquired in 1888 ( Royal Collection , RCIN 405296 ) FIG . 14 Gerrit van Honthorst , The Duke of. van Bassen's King ...
... Earl of Mount Edgcumbe ( 1764-1839 ) Six men discuss Lord Cowper's Raphael ; from left to right they are : 3 George , 3rd Earl Cowper ( 1738-89 ) , an Englishman in Florence who tried to sell this A group of six men discuss Titian's ...
... Earl of 18 , 100 , 102 Caravaggio , school of 137 Carlini , Agostino 125 , 129 Carlton House , London 80 , 87 , 95 , 100 , 144 Caroline , Princess 82 , 82 , 83 Caroline , Queen 68 , 69 , 80 Caroline of Brunswick , Queen 152 Carracci ...
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In Custom and in Ceremony | 7 |
Charles I 16001649 | 24 |
Frederick Prince of Wales 17071751 | 62 |
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