- Artist
- Peter Angellis 1685–1734
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 937 × 797 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
- Reference
- T00789
Catalogue entry
T00789 Conversation Piece c. 1715–20
Oil on canvas, painted surface 937×797 (36 5/8×31 15/16), relined on canvas 945×802 (37 1/4×31 5/8)
Inscribed ‘PAngelles’ (initials in monogram) bottom centre
Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
PROVENANCE ...; Mrs E.H. Peacocke; R.M. Sabin, sold 1945 to Knoedler by whom sold anon.,
Sotheby's 7 December 1960(73) bt Colnaghi, from whom bt by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965
EXHIBITED The Conversation Piece in Georgian England, Kenwood 1965 (1)
Previously entitled ‘The Marriage Contract’. It is doubtful whether this is in fact the subject, and it has also been suggested that it might be a scene from a play. The museum of the Nederlands Theater Institut in Amsterdam dates the picture to the 1730s (letter from J.W. Niemeijer of the Rijksmuseum), but this seems too late. Robert Raines (letter of 29 September 1985) likens the picture to ‘The Sculptor's Studio’ of 1716 in Stockholm and therefore to work done before the most probable date for the artist's arrival in England. However, the exclusively English provenance, in so far as it goes, gives slight support to a dating during Angellis's first years in England.
On the back there is a label of the 1954–5 RA exhibition, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century,
but in the event the picture was not hung.
Published in:
Elizabeth Einberg and Judy Egerton, The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709, Tate Gallery Collections, II, London 1988
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