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Description: | This painting showing a family welcoming the newest child 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. Bird used many of his family, friends and acquaintances as models in his paintings. In this painting, the mother was based on Sarah Elton, wife of Sir Charles Abraham Elton.
Oil painting showing a family in a simple domestic interior gathered around a newborn baby who is in its mother's lap. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Houses Boys Childhood Fine arts Men Mothers Women Oil painting Oil Paintings Babies Fathers Children Family life Homes Interiors Georgian period Birth People and roles Domestic life Paintings Family Parents People Art collections | Temporal: | 1790 - 1819
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | BIRD; Edward (1772 - 1819) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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