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Fancy pictures are a sub-genre of genre paintings in 18th-century English art, featuring scenes of everyday life but with an imaginative or storytelling element, usually sentimental. The usage of the term varied, and there was often an overlap with the conversation piece, a type of group portrait showing the subjects engaged in some activity.
Pride and Joy: Children's Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500–1700 (Dutch: Kinderen op hun mooist: het kinderportret in de Nederlanden 1500-1700), was an exhibition held jointly by the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, over several months in 2000–2001. [1]
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. B. ... Pages in category "18th-century portraits"
Most of the 18th-century portraits occupy a placid middle ground between the styles of the two dominant male artists of the time, Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, typified by Katherine ...
18th-century portraits (11 C, 88 P) 1800 paintings (8 P) M. Paintings by Carlo Maratta (3 P) P. Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough (2 C, 1 P) ... Children Playing with ...
The many portraits of Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (1629–1646), son of Philip IV of Spain, show him wearing breeches from about the age of six. For working-class children, about whom even less is known than their better-off contemporaries, it may well have marked the start of a working life.
18th century MuMa Museum of modern art André Malraux: Helmingham Dell. Vallon dans le parc de Helmingham: 1800s Department of Paintings of the Louvre: Vue de Salisbury: 1800s Department of Paintings of the Louvre: The White Horse: 1819 The Frick Collection: Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden: 1800s Metropolitan Museum of Art
Portraits of individual children became more common than they had been in the seventeenth century and the idea of the "innocence" of childhood began to take root based on the view that the child was an uncorrupted blank slate as advocated by John Locke in his book Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693).