The Jones Conversation Piece by William Hogarth

The Jones Conversation Piece by William Hogarth, 1731

© National Museum Cardiff

Details

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

69 x 96 cm

Art Fund grant:

£40,000 ( Total: £425,000; Tax remission)

Acquired in:

1996

Vendor:

Private vendor

Robert Jones II stands to the right. His mother is shown in dark blue, seated to the right with her spaniel. His younger brother Oliver is seated to the left and adjacent are their sisters Mary and Elizabeth. The background figures of a boy struggling with a monkey and haymakers disporting themselves strike an ironic contrast with the decorum of the family group.

Provenance

Robert Jones, Fonmon; by descent to Sir Brooke Boothby.