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An English Family at Tea

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Description: An English Family at Tea
TitleAn English Family at Tea
Creator nameAken, Joseph van
Creator nationality/cultureFlemish
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1720
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationTate, London
https:/­/­www.tate.org.uk/­art/­artworks/­van-aken-an-english-family-at-tea-n04500
Accession numberN04500
SubjectsPortrait painting, FlemishFamilies in artConversation piece (Portrait painting)
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Chapter 2: Conversation at the Crossroads
David H. Solkin
Description: Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century...
Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England
English ideologies of commercial refinement may have achieved a remarkable degree of prominence in a very short period of time, but not without encountering obstacles of quite formidable power. Both...
Author
David H. Solkin
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 1992 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.48-77
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31855&redirecttoanchor=91537
Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Art and society--Britain--History--18th centuryAngillis, Pieter, 1685-1734Clothing and dress--Great Britain--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th century
Introduction: 25 Park Lane, March 1930
Kate Retford
Description: The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
In the spring of 1930, an exhibition entitled English Conversation Pieces opened in Park Lane in London, organised by Sir Philip Sassoo...
Author
Kate Retford
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2017 by Kate Retford
Related print edition pages: pp.1-31
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.1
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23266&redirecttoanchor=91537
Chapter subject tags:Art--England--London--ExhibitionsConversation piece (Portrait painting)Vertue, George, 1684-1756Portrait painting, British--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryEngland--Social life and customs--18th centuryZoffany, Johann, 1733-1810

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