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Description: Robert Gwillym of Atherton and His Family

TitleRobert Gwillym of Atherton and His Family

Creator nameDevis, Arthur

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1745–1747

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm)

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:404

Accession numberB1977.14.51

SubjectsFamilies in artPortrait painting, Georgian (British)Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Aristocracy (Social class) in art

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4. Fabricating Space I: Outside

Kate Retford

The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Exterior spaces in conversation pieces range from evocative pastoral settings to precise locations in front of country houses; from generic landscapes, composed of framing trees and winding rivers, to established viewpoints within gardens, marked by temples or inviting seats...

Author

Kate Retford

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.129-171

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23272&redirecttoanchor=50623

Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Country homes--EnglandZoffany, Johann, 1733-1810England--Social life and customs--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryGardens, English, in art--18th centuryDevis, Arthur, 1711-1787

Patrilineal Portraiture? Gender and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century English Country House

Kate Retford

Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830

OVER THE LAST FEW DECADES, as part of a broader concern with the life of the image subsequent to production, many art historians have studied the display of paintings and concomitant issues of space and spectatorship...

Author

Kate Retford

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.315-340

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00205.014

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20189&redirecttoanchor=50623

Chapter subject tags:Welbeck Abbey (England)Early modern, 1500-1800--HistoryCountry homes--England--18th centuryConversation piece (Portrait painting)Portrait painting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryWomen and gender--Britain--18th centuryAristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--18th century

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