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Summary
Arthur Devis : The James Family | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q3286189
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Title |
The James Family
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | family portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English:
This group portrait shows Robert James, together with his wife Mary and two daughters Elizabeth and Ann. James, aged fifty-one at this time, was for many years Secretary to the East India Company. Devis specialized in painting fashionable small-scale portrait groups or 'conversation pieces’ set in domestic interiors or spacious parkland. Although such pictures were intended to portray family groups in a private setting, they can often appear quite formal, and in Devis’s case, even stiff. However, for a man such as James, a display of material wealth and worldly success was perhaps more meaningful than family intimacy.
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Date |
1751
date QS:P571,+1751-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions |
height: 98.4 cm (38.7 in); width: 124.5 cm (49 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,98.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,124.5U174728
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q195436
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Current location |
not on view
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Accession number |
N05281
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Credit line | Purchased 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | Tate Britain |
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