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Samuel Richardson, the Novelist (1684-1761), Seated Surrounded by his Second Family
Artist: Francis Hayman (1708 - 1776)
Location: Tate
Date: 1740
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76.2 x 101.6cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £150,000 (Total: £1,000,000)
Vendor: Agnew's
Review number: 5763 (2006)
Provenance:
Samuel Richardson; by descent in the family to Brigadier Oliver Peck; John Nicholson, Haslemere, 2004; Agnew's.
Description:
A conversation piece depicting the novelist Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) with his second wife Elizabeth Leake, their four daughters and a friend of the family. Richardson achieved overnight success with his first novel, 'Pamela or Virtue Rewarded', published in 1740. This work may have been conceived to celebrate Richardson's success.
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