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Saying Grace

Joseph van Aken (c.1699–1749)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Saying Grace

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Although best known as a drapery painter, van Aken began his career in Flanders, painting genre pictures. Judging from the accessories, this middle-class interior seems to be English and to date from about 1720, shortly after van Aken had settled permanently in London. He tended to re-employ the same figures and accessories in different compositions. The detail and the figures in this painting reappear in other works.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

Saying Grace

Date

c. 1720

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 35 x W 30 cm

Accession number

WA1962.17.4

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Francis Falconer Madan, 1962

Work type

Painting

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Joseph van Aken

c.1699–1749

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