Family group

Millar, James (1763-1805)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1774-1780
Height:
127.0 cm  (50 in.)
Width:
102.9 cm  (40 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Yale Center for British Art
    Paul Mellon Collection[Museum inv. no.: B1981.25.447]Signed in black paint (on piano), center right: "J: Millar Pinx"

Description

With draperies and a balcony in the background, this painting presents a portrait of a family of four with pets and musical instruments (a double bass and a keyboard instrument, probably a piano, with an open music book on its music rack). The father holds a letter.

Iconclass

41A2
interior of the house
42B71
family life at home
42B74
family group, especially parents with their child(ren)
48C73
musical instruments; group of musical instruments

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Double bass [3111]
Pianoforte [2299] (or harpsichord)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Plumb, J. H. The pursuit of happiness: A view of life in Georgian England: an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1977) 44-45, 96, no. 65.

Notes

Additional bibliographic references available on museum website.

RIdIM record id

6228