32 William Hogarth, Conversation Piece (Portrait of Sir...

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Description: Conversation Piece (Portrait of Sir Andrew Fountaine with Other Men and Women)

TitleConversation Piece (Portrait of Sir Andrew Fountaine with Other Men and Women)

Creator nameHogarth, William

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1730–1735

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/103801

Accession numberM1928-1-14

SubjectsPortrait painting, Georgian (British)Portraits, GroupConversation piece (Portrait painting)Aristocracy (Social class) in art

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1. Making Modern Art

Kate Retford

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

At one point in the hundreds of notebook pages that George Vertue filled with his comments on art in Britain, past and present, we find a humorous remark about the physique of the most important artists at work in early eighteenth-century London...

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Kate Retford

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.35-61

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23268&redirecttoanchor=91550

Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Portrait painting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryVertue, George, 1684-1756Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Hamilton, Gawen, approximately 1697-1737Mercier, Philip, 1689?-1760Devis, Arthur, 1711-1787Clothing and dress--Great Britain--History--18th centuryHighmore, Joseph, 1692-1780

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