Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780, British
Title:
A Family Conversation Piece
Date:
1730 to 1735
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
17 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (45.1 x 80 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.39
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
men | family | women | child | girl | arches | costume | chairs | garden | conversation piece | group portrait | portrait | basin | architectural subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 253, 256-257, fig. 3, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Ching-Jung Chen, The early Georgian conversation piece : Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, 2001, pp. 377-78, 513, 516, cat. no. 67, Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 114-115, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Ralph Edwards, Georgian Conversation Pictures, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 253, 256-57, fig. 3, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)]

Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts Love, Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, p. 34, fig. 16, NJ18.H4888 R53 2017 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:276