English family of seven
1850
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1850
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
English family of seven is a 1850 by Unknown, a Romanticism work, depicting Family, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see seven people—two parents, five kids—posed stiffly in a dim parlor. The girls wear matching white dresses; the boys have high collars. A dog sits at their feet. No one smiles. The artist didn’t sign the work, so we don’t know who painted it or even what medium was used. The faces look almost like cut-outs pasted onto the scene, which makes the family feel both close and strangely distant. Look up more paintings of England to see how other artists showed home life in the 1800s.
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