Children Throwing Snow Balls

by William Ward, after Richard Morton Paye

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine image of childhood after Paye who 'especially excelled in painting children, both as single portraits and in groups' DNB One odd feature of late 18th century British genre paintings and prints from our present point of view was the discovery of children as suitable subjects of interest. Previously, children rarely appeared in paintings usually as participants in a religious or mythological scene, and not as children per se. Children as they were as opposed to future

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