Group Portrait of the Brewster Family

Thomas Bardwell (1704 - 1767)

Geffrye, Museum of the Home

1736

This conversation piece depicts a typical middle class family of the period. Francis Brewster was a linen draper and lived in Beccles, Suffolk with his three surviving daughters and son. The setting is unostentatious and relatively plain although the tripod table and India-backed chairs are of good quality and of recent design.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 101.5 x 127cm
• Art Fund Grant: £27000 ( Total: £40,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2005
• Vendor: Elwes & Hanham Ltd

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 1997; private collection, UK; Elwes & Hanham Ltd, London.

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