© National Gallery, London
The Graham Children
William Hogarth
- Art Funded
- 1934
- Dimensions
- 161 x 181 cm
- Presented by
- Lord Duveen through The Art Fund
The Graham children are three girls and a boy, the children of Daniel Graham, apothecary to Chelsea Hospital.
Exquisitely dressed and posed in a semicircle yet a lively and cheerful group. The boy has a bird organ, the baby is in a go cart, one girl is about to dance. A cat looks at a birdcage. Signed W Hogarth pinx 1742.
Provenance
Graham family; William Seguier, 1816; George Watson Taylor; Taylor Sale, Erlstoke Mansion, Devises, 1932; Lord Normanton.