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The art of domestic life : family portraiture in eighteenth-century England
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The art of domestic life : family portraiture in eighteenth-century England

Kate Retford

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"Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."

Contents

'A sort of sex in souls' : marriage and the pendant portrait
'Delicious harmony' : marriage and the double portrait
'A title of so much tenderness' : the art of motherhood
'Think not the nursery's care beneath your notice' : the art of fatherhood
Family history and the politics of dynasty
The battle of the pictures.

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The art of domestic life : family portraiture in eighteenth-century England by Kate Retford. ISBN 0300110014. Published by Yale University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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