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The identity of these men in a fashionable interior has been lost, all except for the figure sketching from the floor. That is a self-portrait of Francis Hayman, whose bust by Roubiliac is shown nearby. These men are clearly of the highest social rank and exude all the trappings of prosperity: a Persian carpet, a marble mantelpiece with a painted landscape and ormolu ornament in the French taste, a Chinoiserie screen, the latest table and chairs of mahogany imported from South America, a silver wine jug, and clothes embroidered with silver and gold thread. Britain's wealth by this date was fuelled by booming exports to colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and through the profits of the deplorable transportation of enslaved Africans to labour in plantations in those colonies.
Title
Portrait of a Group of Gentleman, with the Artist
Date
1740–1745
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 111.8 x W 142.2 cm
Accession number
B1981.25.325
Acquisition method
Paul Mellon Collection
Work type
Painting
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510-2302, USA,
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