Conversations and Chimneypieces: the imagery of the hearth in eighteenth-century English family portraiture
This is a study of the conventional settings that were employed by painters of conversation piece portraits in eighteenth-century England. The focus is upon the placement of groups “in conversation” around the hearth, in front of a chimney piece. My argument is that this situation was commonly used...
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| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2016-04-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-2/conversations-chimneypieces |