Painting:"Conversation Group" (English family)

Dateca. 1775-1800 (3rd quarter of 18th century)

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.