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6. ‘Familys Done in Familiar Case in Groups’
Kate Retford
Description: The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
It is often written that a ‘conversation piece’ is usually a ‘family piece’ – but there are two problems with this idea...
Author
Kate Retford
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2017 by Kate Retford
Related print edition pages: pp.217-249
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.7
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23275
Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Portrait painting, British--18th centuryEngland--Social life and customs--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryDevis, Arthur, 1711-1787Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810Hamilton, Gawen, approximately 1697-1737

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