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Description: | Although Hardy was less influenced by the Dutch school than were Horsley and Webster, this picture shows a compositional device featured often in the work of Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684), that is, the open vista through to a room beyond. The young woman prepares dinner, watched by her daughter, whilst the grandmother naps beside her spinning wheel. As with other works of this period the cottage interior is rich in detail.
Whilst mother sits peeling carrots for dinner, her child looks on. In the adjoining room, an old lady can be seen, sleeping in a chair, a spinning wheel beside her. Although he did not attend the Royal Academy Schools, nor did he travel like his brother, Frederick is considered the most prominent member of the Cranbrook Colony.
Oil painting showing a simple domestic interior. A mother sits peeling carrots and a young child looks on. An elderly woman is sleeping by a spinning wheel in an adjoining room. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Vegetables Families Childhood Fine arts Food Women Oil painting Cottages Homes Domestic life Girls Cranbrook Colony of Artists Parents Houses Mothers Oil Paintings Children Buildings Kitchens Victorian period Interiors Elderly people Paintings Narrative painting Family Rural life Country life People Food preparation Art collections | Temporal: | 1854
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | HARDY; Frederick Daniel (1827 - 1911) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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