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Description: | This type of painting is known as a domestic genre or "common life" painting. Children were an important part of Bird's genre paintings and the child is possibly one of artist's own children. 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 a sick child sleeping in bed. An elderly woman sits on the end of the bed with a book in her lap, looking at the child. |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Bedrooms Houses Beds Fine arts Childhood Mothers Women Oil painting Oil Paintings Elderly Sickness Children Illness Homes Interiors Georgian period People and roles Domestic life Paintings Ill health People Art collections |
Temporal: | 1790 - 1819
Georgian (1714-1837) |
Source: | Black Country History |
Creator: | BIRD; Edward (1772 - 1819) |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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