An English family in Macao

Chinnery, George (1774-1852)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1835

Height:

73.0 cm  (28 3/4 in.)

Width:

58.7 cm  (23 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

This portrait presents a family of four--the father dressed in a black suit, the mother and daughters in flowing white gowns, and the young son in a plaid highland-type costume--all in an aristocratic home setting. A guitar and an open music book are on the floor beside the son; in front of him is an undiscernible object.

Iconclass

41A2
interior of the house
42B71
family life at home
42B74
family group, especially parents with their child(ren)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (probably six strings)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Country houses in Great Britain (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1979) 60, no. 39.

RIdIM record id

6224