Joshua Reynolds 1800s Antique Print “Sophia Pelham Feeding Chickens” Framed COA$279.00
Joshua Reynolds 1800s Antique Print “Sophia Pelham Feeding Chickens” Framed COA
$279.00
Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1793-1792)
Title: Mrs. Pelham Feeding Chickens
Medium: Antique heliogravure on thick wove paper after the original by Alfred Dawson(British, 1843-1931).
Year: 1884
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 6 x 9 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The 1st Baroness of Yarborough, Mrs. Sophia Pelham. Mrs. Pelham wears a workingclass–inspired yet finely embroidered Brunswick dress to feed her chickens before a rustic farmhouse. Such scenes are reminiscent of the 18th-century British fashion for ornamental farms and dairies within elite society, similar to Marie Antoinette’s 1783 Hamlet at Versailles, with its imported Swiss sheep and cows. In fact, Mrs. Pelham had her own ornamental dairy, built in 1779 and outfitted entirely in Wedgwood Queen’s Ware dishes and equipment.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style. With the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first president and knighted by King George III.
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