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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.
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. B. ... Pages in category "18th-century portraits"
18th-century portraits (14 C, 109 P) 1800 paintings (10 P) M. Paintings by Carlo Maratta (3 P) P. ... Children Playing with a Goat; The Council of Nicaea (painting)
18th century Yale Center for British Art: Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames--Morning after a Stormy Night: 1829 Yale Center for British Art: Ploughing Scene in Suffolk: 1825 Yale Center for British Art: Dedham Lock: 18th century Yale Center for British Art: Cloud Study: 1821 Yale Center for British Art: Malvern Hall, Warwickshire: 1800s
The drawing is a study for a painted portrait, by Holbein, in the Louvre, Paris; [204] among the surviving copies are a late-16th-century one at the Lambeth Palace, the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and an early-17th-century one in the National Portrait Gallery, London. [205] Thomas Wentworth [206] c. 1532 – c. 1543
By 1774, he was working in New Haven, Connecticut, as a portrait painter. In the autumn of 1774, Earl returned to Leicester, Massachusetts, to marry his cousin, Sarah Gates. A few months later, their daughter Phebe was born in January 1775. Earl left them both with Sarah's parents and returned to New Haven to continue painting portraits.
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).
The Goya Room of the Magnani-Rocca Foundation (Italy) The Family of the Infante Don Luis is an informal group portrait (far removed, therefore, from the outcomes of the later Charles IV of Spain and His Family), in which the fourteen members of Don Luis’s family appear “stiffened as if on the final cue, before the curtain falls,” as observed by Riccomini.