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Description	English-British painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	10 November 1697	25 October 1764
Location of birth/death	London	London
Work location	London, Chiswick
Authority file	: Q171344 VIAF: 17268409 ISNI: 0000000120993749 ULAN: 500004242 LCCN: n80126106 NLA: 35201047 WorldCat

Object type

painting

Description

English: Date painted: 1732 This elaborate conversation piece was commissioned by George Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas, who is seated in the centre. The painting seems to be a memorial to his wife Mary, pictured on the far left of the canvas. She had died of consumption in France the previous year. The posthumous inclusion of individuals, their status pictorially indicated by such symbols as the putti seen hovering over Mary’s head, was not unusual in group portraits of this period. Within the composition Hogarth dramatises the different states of adulthood and childhood by juxtaposing the reflective mood of the adults with the playfulness and innocence of Malpas’s young sons on the right. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/hogarth/hogarth-room-guide-room-4

Date

1732

Source/Photographer

Photograph

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