Col. Ralph Bates and his wife Anne

Seton, John Thomas (ca. 1735-ca. 1806)


Item type:
painting
Height:
97.8 cm  (38 1/2 in.)
Width:
100.3 cm  (39 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Privately owned"Sold London, Christie, 19 November 1976." -- Leppert article, p. 53.

Description

A seated woman plays a lute in the right side of the painting, and looks at a man who is to her right. The man is standing behind a chair in front of a window, resting his left arm on the chair.

People as subjects

Bates, Ralph (Non-musician/dancer)
Bates, Anne (Musician)

Iconclass

48C75
making music; musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard D. "Men, women, and music at home: the influence of cultural values on musical life in eighteenth-century England". Imago musicae 2 (1985) 51-133, fig. 38. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

7434