Oil paint on canvas
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Unknown artist, Britain
A Family Group in a Landscape
Presented by Mrs H.A. Wilder 1939
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
balustrade
boy
cane / walking stick
children
clothing and personal items
dog - non-specific
estate
family
family
features
flower
girl
group
groups
groups
landscape
leisure and pastimes
man
objects
people
picking flowers
plants and flowers
portraits
recreational activities
society
standing
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
urn
woman
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
1 January 2001
1 August 2009 – 28 February 2027
2027-02-28
2009-08-01
Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK)
http://www.vam.ac.uk
2001-01-01
Long loan to V&A
Loan-out
A Family Group in a Landscape
support: 698 × 902 mm
Presented by Mrs H.A. Wilder 1939
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/unknown-artist-britain-a-family-group-in-a-landscape-n05049" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05049</span></a> <b>Family Group in a Landscape</b> <i>c.</i>1750</p>
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<p>Oil on canvas 720×898 (27 5/8×35 3/8)</p>
<p>Presented by Mrs Helen Alice Wilder to the National Gallery 1939; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1949</p>
<p>PROVENANCE ...; Mrs Anna Dora Denison (née Cumberbatch); her god-daughter and heir Mrs H.A. Wilder of Newton House, Tetbury, Glos., 1939, by whom presented to the National Gallery ‘in accordance with the wishes of the late Mrs E.F. Denison’
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<br/>The family group, comprising both parents, a boy and three girls, remains unidentified, although the tradition is that the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> descended in Mrs Denison's family.
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<br/>The style is close to some British provincial painters of this period, although the high colour and strong blue and russet <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tones</span></a> of the foliage and distant town prospect are unusual and suggest Continental influence. Comparison with David Morier (c. 1705–70), who worked in England from c. 1743 onwards, is possible but, as all his documented paintings are of military subjects, must remain inconclusive.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Elizabeth Einberg and Judy Egerton, <i>The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709</i>, Tate Gallery Collections, II, London 1988
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults animals: mammals architecture balustrade boy cane / walking stick children clothing and personal items dog - non-specific estate family family features flower girl group groups groups landscape leisure and pastimes man objects people picking flowers plants and flowers portraits recreational activities society standing townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features urn woman wooded