17th-18th Century Genre Scenes

Elegant indoor settings featuring social interactions and character moments, with rich colors and detailed costumes, reflecting the artistic styles of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Broken Fan, Bonnet, Louis-Marin (1743-1793)

The Buckley-Boar Family, unknown artist, 18th century, British

Cordelia Championed by the Earl of Kent, from Shakespeare's "King Lear," I, i Cordelia championed by the Earl of Kent, unknown artist, 18th century, British

Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743). French painter. La Camargo Dancing, first half of the 18th century. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Anonymous. "The nieces of Mazarin". Copper oil, 17th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 71434-1 Hair, Comtesse, Costume, Decollete, Duchess, family, feminine, feminite, woman, flower, grace, graceful, French state, copper oil, youth, Italian nationality, niece, princess, portrait, wealth, three graces, Volupt, 18th XVII 17th 17th 17th 17th century

Jacques Benigne Bossuet preaches in the House of Marquise de Rambouillet by Khlebovsky, Stanislav (1835-1884)/ State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/ 1856/ Poland/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 93x130/ History

Queen Victoria Presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor, c1861, Thomas Jones Barker, (1815-1882/British)

Painting of Louis XIV and the Royal Family. Oil on Canvas. Painted by Jean Nocret in 1670, Versailles.

Agustin Esteve Marques (1753-1820). Spanish painter. The Countess-Duchess of Benavente (), accompanied by Mercedes de Rojas y Tello (standing), future Marchioness of Villanueva de Duero, and her Daughter, Maria Asuncion, ca. 1797. Oil on canvas, 198,5 x 145,5 cm. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain.

The Watson-Wentworth and Finch Families The Finch Family Signed, lower left: "C Philip? Pinxit", Charles Philips, 1708-1747, British

The Sense of Hearing. Date/Period: 1744 to 1747. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,321 mm (52 in); Width: 1,537 mm (60.51 in). Author: Philippe Mercier.

'The Family of Carlos IV', 1800, Oil on canvas, 280 cm x 336 cm, P00726. Author: FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES DE (1746-1828). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. MARIA LUISA VON BOURBON. Infante Francisco de Paula. FERNANDO VII. Prince of Asturias Charles de Bourbon (Charles IV). CARLOS IV ESPOSA. MARIA LUISA OF PARMA. BORBON MARIA LUISA. MARIA JOSEFA. ANTONIO PASCUAL BORBON. PASCUAL BORBON ANTONIO. PARMA PRINCIPE DE. CARLOS LUIS. MARIA LUISA JOSEFINA DE BORBON. BORBON ANTONIO PASCUAL INFANTE. CARLOS MARIA ISIDRO. MARIA ISABEL DE ESPAÑA. CARLOS III HIJO. CARLOTA JOAQUINA INFANTA. PASCUAL ANTONIO. MARIA LUISA DE PARMA (1751-1819). FRANCISCO GOYA Y LUCIENTES DE (1746-1828). FRANCISCO DE PAULA ANTONIO DE BORBOM.

The Family of the Viennese Notary, Dr. Josef Eltz, at Ischl, Waldmuller, Ferdinand Georg, 1835.

Sayer, R., Zoffany, John, Earlom, Richard, George III of England and his family, The English royal family was portrayed in 1770 by the Viennese painter Zoffany. On the left are the two eldest sons George and Frederick; in front of them Prince William with a parrot on his hand and Prince Edward with a little dog. Queen Charlotte holds her youngest daughter Sophia in her arms, while Princess Charlotta Augusta stands next to her. On the right is a table with the paraphernalia of royalty. A year after the painting was created, the family portrait was turned into a print by Earlom, a specialist in the mezzotint technique., print, prent, prints, prenten, height mm, width mm, British, 1743 - 1822-10-09, print maker, prentmaker, 1771 - 1771, third quarter 18th century, derde kwart 18e eeuw, paper, papier, mezzotint, English, 1733 - 1810-11-18, after, after a painting by, Expression creation

Falstaff at Herne's Oak, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act V, Scene v. Date/Period: 1832. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 445 mm (17.51 in); Width: 371 mm (14.60 in). Author: JAMES STEPHANOFF. William Shakespeare.

Two Children Of The Holte Family, 1800 British School, Girl, Oil Painting, Portrait, Animal, Sheep, Child, Boy

Auguste Charles Lemoine, Florinde, 1832-1869, chromolithograph on paper.

Portrait of Wilhelmina of Prussia in a Medallion With Allusions to Her Marriage to Prince William V on October 4, 1767 in Berlin (Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina). Portrait of Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina; 1751-1820), Princess of Prussia, in a medallion, accompanied by allusions to her marriage in Berlin, October 4, 1767, with Willem V, Prince of Oranje-Nassau. The portrait is worn by an angel and four putti with a burning torch, a flower wreath and the family weapons awarded two turtle doves.

The Stephens Children. oil on canvas. Date: ca. 1845. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Frederick the Great , Knobelsdorff

Family scene by David Des Granges, oil on canvas, circa 1636, 1611/13-1675, England, London, Tate Britain, 21,4x27,6

The Major Makes a Proposal ca. 1851 Pavel Andreevic Fedotov (1815-1852 Russia) Oil on canvas State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of United Kingdom. "The Secret of England's Greatness" (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor). The Queen is depicted presenting a Bible to the East African ambassador. Painting by Thomas Jones Barker (1815-1882). Oil on canvas (167,6 x 213,8 cm), ca.1862-1863. National Portrait Gallery. London, England, United Kingdom. Author: Thomas Jones Barker (1815-1882). English painter.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judit and her maid, oil on canvas. circa 1618-1619, Degli Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.

William Faithorne, 1656-ca. 1701, British, Elizabeth Cooper. Mezzotint (proof before letters).

Portrait of David Garrick, the English Actor, Hogarth, William, 1757.

Print made by unknown artist, 18th century, Meeting of Jacob and Esau, undated. Mezzotint (proof before all letters) on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. Dated: 1788. Dimensions: overall: 106 x 152.5 cm (41 3/4 x 60 1/16 in.) framed: 125.1 x 171.5 x 7 cm (49 1/4 x 67 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Willson Peale.

Willem van der Helm (c 1625-75), Municipal Architect of Leiden, with his Wife Belytgen Cornelisdr van der Schelt (d 1661) and their Son Leendert (1622-64). Dating: 30-Sep-1656. Measurements: h 148 cm × w 127.5 cm; d 8 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Barent Fabritius.

Portrait of Ekaterina Khruschova and Ekaterina Khovanskaya. Date/Period: 1773. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 1,640 mm (64.56 in); Width: 1,290 mm (50.78 in). Author: Dmitry Levitzky.

Of One Heart. 'Of one Heart'. Dating: 1830. Measurements: h 102 cm × w 120 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Cornelis Kruseman.

Dance in a Pavilion, Lancret, Nicolas

The Cup of Coffee, 1742, Nicolas Lancret, (1690-1743/French), Oil

The speaking likeness - a woman holding a frame in front of her daughter's face, creating a living portrait, circa 1892

The Proud Mother. Dated: c. 1810. Dimensions: overall: 76.3 x 66.5 cm (30 1/16 x 26 3/16 in.) framed: 92.1 x 82.5 x 9.5 cm (36 1/4 x 32 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: American 19th Century.

The Princess of Orange Receiving Alexander II (1818-1881), Grand Duke and Heir to the Throne of Russia, in the Czar Peter's House in Zaandam, 17 April 1839. Dating: 1839 - 1840. Measurements: h 118.5 cm × w 144.5 cm × t 3.2 cm; d 11 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Christiaan Julius Lodewijk Portman.

'Duet'. Flanders, Circa 1625-1639. Dimensions: 52x82 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Jan van Boeckhorst ( ).

Les Plaisirs du Bal. Date/Period: Ca. 1715-17. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil. Height: 525 mm (20.66 in); Width: 652 mm (25.66 in). Author: ANTOINE WATTEAU.

David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return". Date/Period: Ca. 1762. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,016 mm (40 in); Width: 1,270 mm (50 in). Author: Johan Joseph Zoffany.

Allegorical Scene with Napoleon. Peszka, Józef (1767-1831), painter

David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return" David Garrick in 'The Farmer's Return' David Garrick and Mary Bradshaw in David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return" David Garrick in 'The Farmer's Return', Johan Joseph Zoffany, 1733-1810, German

fine arts, Freudweiler, Heinrich (1755 - 1795), Girl at the Cembalo making Music, painting, detail, 18th century, oil on canvas, Kunsthaus Zurich,

AMIGONI, Jacopo (1682-1752). Party in a garden. Rococo. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

The Saithwaite Family ca. 1785 Francis Wheatley British Wheatley was among the best painters of the small-scale group portrait, or conversation piece, one of the definitive genres of mid-eighteenth-century English art. Here he shows a couple and their little girl, traditionally identified as members of the Saithwaite family. The lady's dress, with its elaborate starched white muslin trim, her puffy powdered hair, and her elaborate plumed hat indicate a date of about 1785. The red figured damask upholstery and the Turkish carpet are painted with attention to detail that conveys the luxurious textures of the familys surroundings.. The Saithwaite Family. Francis Wheatley (British, London 1747-1801 London). ca. 1785. Oil on canvas. Paintings

Charles III (1716-1788). King of Spain. Peace between the spanish king Charles III and the Tripoli Regency. Painting by Pere Pau Muntanya (1749-1803). Hall of Charles III in the ancient Customs Palace. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain.

Wall painting by Stefano Torelli: Allegorical figures of the virtues of the councillors

Portrait of the Shishmareva Sisters. Date/Period: 1839. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 2,840 mm (111.81 in); Width: 2,130 mm (83.85 in). Author: KARL BRYULLOV.

CASTILLO, JosŽ del (1737-1793). The Lady and the Militar. SPAIN. San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Placed at the Palace of the Bourbons. Neoclassicism. Tapestry.

The Family of Charles IV 1800, Goya, Francisco de, 1800.

Portrait of the Three Regentesses of the Leprozenhuis, Amsterdam. The Lepers Asylum originally took in patients suffering from leprosy. Since that infectious disease rarely still occurred during the 17th century, people with other afflictions were also cared for there. Three regentessestook charge of the day-to-day running of the institution, from overseeing servants to purchasing goods. Bol painted them seated at a table set before a plain back wall. Their identities are known from the family arms on the chimneypiece, above which the painting hung.

Princess Marie Adelaide of France (1732-1800) by Nattier, Jean-Marc (1685-1766) / Louvre, Paris / after 1758 / France / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 222x148 / Rococo

CORONACION DE DON MANUEL QUINTANA POR ISABEL II EN EL SALON DE SESIONES DEL SENADO 25/3/1855 - 1859 - L 4,20x5,61 - Nº INV 15 - DET - Co. Author: LUIS LOPEZ PIQUER (1802-1865). Location: SENADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA FRANCISCO. ISABEL II REINA DE ESPAÑA (1830-1904). MANUEL JOSE QUINTANA (1772/1857).

Andres de Islas (painter active during the second half of the 18th century). Castas, No. 7. De espaol y albina, nace torna atras (From Spaniard and Albino, a Return-Backwards is Born), 1774. Oil on canvas (75 x 54 cm). Viceroyalty of New Spain. Mexico. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.

Two Elegant Women in Polish Dress. Dated: c. 1723. Dimensions: overall: 18.2 x 29.5 cm (7 3/16 x 11 5/8 in.). Medium: red, black, and white chalk on light brown paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Nicolas Lancret.

Jan Klemens Stanis Aw Krajewski, Pose At the Great Sejm, with the sisters: Ann In the future of Franciszek Nakwask and teres, in the future of Ludwików Rastawieck; Olexi Ski, Franciszek Ksawery (1758-1826); 1794 (1794-00-00-1797-00-00);Królewska Malarnia (Warsaw - Art School - 1766-1818), trees, children, girls, Polish miniatures, uniforms, men, orders, collective portraits, siblings, family, purchase (provenance)

Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British, The Fortune Teller, 1827. Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on moderately think, smooth, cream wove paper.

Ball at the Carnival of Venice, Italy (detail)

A Group Portrait of Three of the Children of Peter and Mary Du Cane, All Small Full-Length, Playing with an Elaborate Dog-Cart, in the Grounds of a Country House. Arthur Devis (ca. 1712-1787). Oil on canvas. Dated 1747. 63.5 x 76.2cm. The sitters in this painting are Richard (1739-1760), Mary (1743-1812) and Peter (1741-1822).

Attributed to William Hogarth, 1697-1764, British, Studies of Heads, ca. 1733. Oil on canvas.

All for the love of a lady, sword duel, cartoon by Nunney from The Tatler, No 1414, August 1, 1928, London.

Germany, Munich, Concert in Luttich, 1755, detail

José Aparicio e Inglada / 'The Queen of Etruria and her Two Children', ca. 1815, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 195 cm x 149,5 cm, P05221. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Bibliophiles. Cristobal de Antonio (ca. 1862-after 1905). Oil on panel. 62.2 x 52.7cm

Family scene with pets by George Morland, copper engraving, watercolor, circa 1800, 1736-1804, Private Collection, 56x42,5

Robert Boyle (1627-1691), químico anglo-irlandés, y Denis Papin (1647-1713), fisico francés.

The chamber musicians in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin court chapel at Ludwigslust in 1770, Abel, Leopold August (1717-1794)

Double portrait of King Jan III Sobieski with King Mari Kazimier; Bombelli, Sebastiano (1635-1719); 1677 (1677-00-00-1677-00-00);

A Party Angling, 1789, (1902). Artist: George Keating

fine arts, paintings, family portrait, unknown artist, 17th century, Schleswig-Holstein state museum, Gottorf castle,

'The Man with the Load of Mischief', 18th century, (1943). A man with a chain and padlock round his neck, carrying a "load of mischief": a woman holding a glass of gin rides on his back, while a monkey pokes him in the ear. In the background is a pawnbroker's shop, a reference to belongings being pawned to buy alcohol. A misogynistic depiction which portrays the wife as a literal 'burden' to the husband. ('Trouble and Strife' is cockney rhyming slang for 'wife'). Inn sign attributed to William Hogarth which reputedly came from an inn called "The Mischief", in Oxford Street.

A woman tunes a 12-string French lute under the instruction of her tutor (perhaps Professor Sylvius). The lute player by Franz van Mieris, 17th century Dutch master. Handcoloured steel engraving engraved by Albert Henry Payne, Dresden and Leipzig, circa 1850.

Venice at Carnival Time, Italy

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