Guy, born and trained in England, settled in New York in 1854. Typical of his mastery of lucid form is this conversation piece commissioned by Robert Gordon in 1866. Three of the Gordon children have finished breakfast and seem to be competing for a small bouquet before leaving for school. Gordon, a founding trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, collected American paintings, some of which he displayed in the dining room of his home at 7 West 33rd Street, depicted in the present painting. The room was decorated in an updated Renaissance style as, curiously, is room 736 in the Metropolitan Gallery of Art in New York.
Collection: Images
Project: 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe., 5. Power and powers in the history of Europe: oligarchies, political participation and democracy.
Chronology: XIX
Scope: Secondary education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (62.5 x 74.9 cm)
Source: Museo Metropolitano de Nueva York (Nueva York)
Language: English
Date: 1866
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: 1,992,128
Copyright: Museo Metropolitano de Nueva York (Nueva York)
Abstract: Portrait of Robert Gordon's family in a 19th-century New York interior by Guy
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