Painting:"Conversation Group" (English family)
Dateca. 1775-1800 (3rd quarter of 18th century)
OriginEngland
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOH: 41" OW: 30 1/4"
Credit LineGift of Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (Mrs. Edgar W.)
Object number1957-196
DescriptionPainting of an English family (conversation) group composed of five figures. From left to right: a woman in a pink dress and a small girl seated in her lap; a man seated at a writing table with a pen in hand, writing on a document; a young man standing; and a boy holding a picture of an English half-timbered house. A map sits on the table, one-third of it draped over the edge.ProvenanceDates unknown, Bernice Chrysler Garbisch [1907-1979] (Pokety Farms, Cambridge, MD); 1957-present, given to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
ca. 1745
ca. 1795
ca. 1845
Probably 1838-1842
1850-1870