The art of domestic life : family portraiture in eighteenth-century England /
Retford, Kate,1974-
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press,
c2006.
"Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-282) and index.
'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.
Portrait painting, English
Family in art.
Families
Art and society