John Orde, His Wife, Anne Orde (née Marr), His Eldest Son, William, and an Unnamed Servant
Date:
between 1754 and 1756
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
37 x 37 7/8 inches (94 x 96.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.65
Gallery Label:
Of the four full-length figures depicted here, one is unidentified: the young black servant, who enters on the right to deliver a letter. The letter is addressed to John Orde, a landowner in Morpeth, in northern England, who sits on the far left, looking up from his newspaper. Anne, his wife, receives a pheasant from her stepson William, who has just returned from hunting. Family portraits flank the chimney and the mantelpiece displays blue-and-white porcelain vases imported from China.\n\n Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
