The art of domestic life
Subtitle: family portraiture in England, c. 1740-90
By: Kate Retford.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Portrait painting, English -- 18th century; Family in art; Family -- England -- History -- 18th century; Art and society -- England -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'A sort of sex in souls' : marriage and the pendant portrait; title: 'Delicious harmony' :  marriage and the double portrait; title: 'A title of so much tenderness' : the art of motherhood; title: 'Think not the nursery's care beneath your notice' : the art of fatherhood; title: Family history and the politics of dynasty; title: The battle of the pictures.