Rev. Thomas D'Oyly and his wife Henrietta Maria

Devis, Arthur (1712-1787)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1743-1744

Height:

73.7 cm  (29 in.)

Width:

61.0 cm  (24 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

In an interior scene, a woman wearing a dress and apron reaches her right hand to take a paper from a man seated to her left, wearing clerical attire and holding a writing quill in his left hand, and resting his left arm on a table. Behind the man, on the right side of the painting, is the exposed keyboard of an instrument. Directly behind the man is a fireplace with a a painting of an outdoor scene above the mantel. Above and behind the woman is a bird in a cage. A door is open on the left side of the painting.

People as subjects

D'Oyly, Thomas (1708 or 1709-1770)
D'Oyly, Henrietta Maria (1715-1770)

Iconclass

42G
family, relationship, descent

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Keyboard instruments [2230]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

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. 39. RILM 1985-6899.

RIdIM record id

7835