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Description: | This painting showing the christening of the newest addition to the family is a typical domestic genre or 'common life' painting. Edward Bird was highly influenced by the small informal scenes of peasant life painted by Adriaen van Ostade and other 17th century Dutch and Flemish artists, as well as by the 18th century artists Francis Wheatley and William Hogarth, and his largest and most artistically successful group of paintings dealt with domestic subjects.
Oil painting showing the interior of a church. A christening is taking place. The vicar stands with the babe in arms at the font. A group is gathered to watch the ceremony. |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Childhood Boys Fine arts Churches Women Oil painting Georgian period Religious ceremonies Religious faith Christenings Parents Christian beliefs Men Religion Oil Paintings Babies Children Church interiors Interiors Religious belief Vicars Prayers Paintings Prayer Church People |
Temporal: | 1792 - 1819
Georgian (1714-1837) |
Source: | Black Country History |
Creator: | BIRD; Edward (1772 - 1819) |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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