215 Gawen Hamilton, Group Portrait, probably of the Raikes...

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Description: Group Portrait, probably of the Raikes Family

TitleGroup Portrait, probably of the Raikes Family

Creator nameHamilton, Gawen

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1730–1732

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:271

Accession numberB1976.7.32

SubjectsPortrait painting, Georgian (British)Families in artConversation piece (Portrait painting)Domestic animals in artBlack people in art

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2. Fleeting Portraits

Jennifer Van Horn

Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery

~He stands in the shadows on the right of Edward Savage’s monumental group portrait The Washington Family, one hand slipped into his waistcoat (fig. 33). Tucked between a column and an upholstered chair,...

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Jennifer Van Horn

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.72-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00354.3

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Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, AmericanSlavery--United StatesWashington, George, 1732-1799Sheels, Christopher, 1776-Antislavery movements

8. ‘Light Incidents’

Kate Retford

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

On the morning of 27 May 1732, William Hogarth, Ebenezer Forrest and some other friends set out from the Bedford Arms Tavern in Covent Garden on an impromptu five-day excursion to and around Kent...

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Kate Retford

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.287-313

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.9

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Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810England--Social life and customs--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryHogarth, William, 1697-1764Wit and humor in art--Great Britain--18th century

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