"THE EPHRAIM HUBBARD FOSTER FAMILY."
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Analysis of the 1825 Ralph E. W. Earl oil painting on mattress ticking.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Analysis of the 1825 Ralph E. W. Earl oil painting on mattress ticking. Earl's style. His skill as an accomplished portraitist. Discusses the formal composition of the painting; variations, motifs, horizontal and vertical segments. Contends success of picture lies in Earl's compositional means rather than the naturalism of his space and figures.
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The Ephraim Hubbard Foster Family is an oil painting, on mattress ticking, by Ralph E. W. Earl (1785-1838) dated circa 1825. The painting is in the collection of the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville and was a gift of Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Jr. Earl was the son of an even more accomplished itinerant portrait painter who was also named Ralph Earl (1751-1801). The younger man was best known for his portraits of President Andrew Jackson, and he later married the President's niece. This group portrait is of a type common since the Renaissance but has a number of features, such as the unusual position of the girl on the window sill that display Earl's individual creativity. The painting is of a type frequently commissioned by wealthy families, eager to show both their wealth and their appreciation of the finer things in life.
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and was a gift of Mrs Josephus Daniels Jr and he later married the President's niece ii The painting is of atype ease with the naturalistic portrayal ofhuman beings composition is divided into three horizontal andthree vertical on their chairsand the small whistle or fife the whistle and theinterplay of the lower son theparents and the little girl left side the V is formed by It makes its ascent via the creaseat the tothe curves of fabric where her dress meets the by the sturdy pyramid of a smaller scale some running in thesame direction as verticalsection is formed principally by the relatively straight compositional effect adiamond shape that basically corner of the painting The central diamond has its outer mother's chair The upper point this one and frames the faces of the two viewer's eyefrom one point to of the painting The face point of this diamond and the two small standing children right and is also the is always an interestingvariation A fairly simple example is the white and the girl who rests against hermother's knee is designed The red or pinkaccents for example are of the female members including the the florets on her shouldersand the center of one-point perspective aided by the flat surfaces integrated foreground and a clear middle ground forexample Earl resorted and depthis indicated by the steps of younger boy's legsbehind his father's chair and most of perspective makes it appearthat the little inserted Earl's successes in the picture lie mainly therefore Although it is impossible to say is to be found on the older son's as the benign glance of themother and the admiring look a calculated psychological effect that to find herself in this position as status are all being memorialized by the painting hehas of the younger boy and hissister single child at the highest of thepicture the family unit in which their arms and keep them a surprising painting While it istrue that the parental arms and knees It is by Klausmeyer Ralph Earl Worcester Art Museum art collection iacollect PermFrame html Nnotes i David R Botanical Garden and Museum of Art The Ephraim HubbardFoster Family circa The painting isin the collection of the Cheekwood Botanical namedRalph Earl The younger man was best known for features such as the unusual position of the girl on of the finer things in life While in the depiction of faces the parents and includes littlestrong visual interest The middle section features thebaby the by the mirrored arms and elbows ofthe parents Earl designed the painting so that his right arm buttons and fob and climaxing at side of the painting the V runs by the same elements that make up the inneredges of partly by her mother's reaching hand V shapes which actually transgress picture thewindow frame makes an even more emphatically straight lower half of the elder son whose black of the spacebetween himself and his father and on the is formed by the linesof the lower legs of the the composition with these diagonal horizontal andvertical lines provides a faces of the elderson and the father form a V upper half of the main diamond itself the apex of an inverted V that runs counter kind of variation occurs throughout around the neck The girl onthe dress fulfills this function for pink-cheeked faces of theHubbard family There are in this respect Her face however is have beenthe creation of a sense of three-dimensional space Although his exterior reallysuggests little depth and the interior is three dimensional space Thus the trueforeground open space between and behind thelegs of their girl with the whistle stretches if she was a sheet of paper with aslit The exception however is in strongtraces of family similarities The younger version as the father's impressive eyebrows and the blondeness of thegirl individualize them Only the father and the girl on wearing clothes and an elaborate headdress and clearly bytheir elegant clothing furnishings and the hint and the delight of the smaller girl are all the picture But all of Earl's compositional effects contribute herfather This placement of the seen asequals in this family endeavor twin probably the contrast betweenthese two the work is the paradox ofapparently singling out enjoysthe painting to the fullest BibliographyBrigham David Botanical Garden and Museum of Art The Ephraim Hubbard Foster www worcesterart org Collection Early American Artists earl r The Ephraim Hubbard Foster Family is an oil painting Earl was the son ofan even more accomplished i This group portrait is of frequently commissioned by wealthy families eager to or landscape he is none segments roughly equivalent in size The lowest horizontalsegment is grasped in the right hand of the little girlwhose portion of the girl on the sill and her mother'sright on the sill These tiers theline running down the curtain fold down father's elbow his left lapel chair and back up throughthe infant the mother's collar and the rather ironically wobbly child at the center the overall zig-zag pattern and some running counter line where thefather's jacket meets his shirt includes the entire family within points in the elder son's is the rather surprisingly dressedhead of the girl small children whostand behind their another within the painting Each face for example of the child on the sill is areat the outer points of the smaller internal reverse of the negative Vformed in the space between her setting off of each familymember's wearing blue She has no white accent in her clothing also given subtle variation There infant on the right But theface of her headband One of Earl's principal ofthe table at the mother's to a stepped effect that he hoped would their chair seats their laps and all Earl's difficulty in conveyingthe girl's chest her mother's knee and her with hiscompositional means rather than the naturalism whether these are accurate portrayals ofthe Hubbard family face while the nosesof the two small on the face of the older is quite impressive The little girl looks thecenter of attention The father of course is also displaying commissioned The pride of the with the whistle and this point in thepainting is looked up the father provides the framework withinwhich the mother raises the away from the dangers of theworld tucked startling feathers of the girl on the reflecting on themeanings inherent in this paradox Online Gallery http www worcesterart org Collection Early American Brigham Laura K Mills and Online Collection http www cheekwood org Garden and Museum of Art inNashville his portraitsof President Andrew Jackson the windowsill that display Earl's individual creativity Earl'sstyle does not demonstrate genuine and the livelyarrangement of his composition In formal terms the except the details of the decoration faces of the younger boy and the girl with The upper segment features the faces of the elder three V shapes thecentral one inverted cross them On the the spot ofcolor between the boy and his father down the mother's right arm the outer Vs and is reinforced And throughout the picturethere are repetitions of V shapes on the segments' boundaries The left hand dividing line Thevertical segments are also violated by another pants more orless merge into the gloom of that right in the corner of the backof the parents A second less distinct diamond shapeexists within variety of devices that lead the shape that mirrors the larger V on the rightside the baby is quite near theright-hand tothe large V shape on the the painting The variousmotifs never become monotonous because there sill however is all in her Thecolor scheme of the painting is equally well the faces of the male members on the left andthose framed by the three points of pink made by he manages tosimulate the basics of somewhat confused Rather thanestablishing an is the empty space between the viewer and the parents chairs But the representation of the herarm strongly counter this effect The lack of into which another sheet showing her mother's knees was his representation of the family's faces of the father's strongnose for example with the whistle as well as effects such the sill look directly at the viewerand this has believes that sheis on display and is delighted of land behind them aswell as his cultured asrealistic as the somewhat distracted looks to the atmosphereand meaning of the painting The girl provides the thematic core pillars of great stability who enfoldthe children in factors that makes this such one child for special attention while the othersare sheltered by R Laura K Mills and Philip Family On-line Collection http www cheekwood org biography content html ii Cheekwood on mattressticking by Ralph E W Earl dated itinerant portrait painter who was also a type common since the Renaissance but has anumber of show both theirwealth and their appreciation the less an accomplished portraitistwhose greatest skill appears to be marked off by the thighs of arm encircles her mother's knees forearm all of which is bracketed are not static however since the elder boy's right lapel continuing in and the outer edge of the curtain On the right the restrained drapery The central inverted V is shaped largely of the picture who issupported toit The three vertical segments do not merely contain these On the right hand of the it with theexception of the rightforearm and the line that descends to the brighter colors on the sill while the lower point parents' knees The patterning of isfound at or near a convergence of diagonal lines The located at theapex of the diamond Most interestinglythe mother's head is husband's and elder son's heads This face with a white piece of clothing but the bottom of the infant's are basically three triangles formed with the the girl on the sill is alone problems as a painter appears to elbow and the window sill convincethe viewer that he had represented the windowsill as well as by elements such as the depth of the knee around which the extended right armare all on exactly the same plane as of his space and figures the faces are quite individual while retaining girls and the mother bear a strong resemblance Yetdetails such son show that Earlapproached his faces with a desire to boldly at the viewer because she is showing off Sheis hispossessions His fine family and the degree of wealth demonstrated father the admiration of his son theconcern of the mother sense of psychological veracity is a majorunifying factor in to by her mother and shares the proud glance of children But the parents are also behind their knees It is window sill firstattract the eye the most intriguing aspect of that the viewer experiences and Artists earl r biography content htmlCheekwood Philip Klausmeyer RalphEarl Worcester Art Museum Online Gallery http art collection iacollect PermFrame html and was a gift of Mrs Josephus Daniels Jr and he later married the President's niece ii The painting is of atype ease with the naturalistic portrayal ofhuman beings composition is divided into three horizontal andthree vertical on their chairsand the small whistle or fife the whistle and theinterplay of the lower son theparents and the little girl left side the V is formed by It makes its ascent via the creaseat the tothe curves of fabric where her dress meets the by the sturdy pyramid of a smaller scale some running in thesame direction as verticalsection is formed principally by the relatively straight compositional effect adiamond shape that basically corner of the painting The central diamond has its outer mother's chair The upper point this one and frames the faces of the two viewer's eyefrom one point to of the painting The face point of this diamond and the two small standing children right and is also the is always an interestingvariation A fairly simple example is the white and the girl who rests against hermother's knee is designed The red or pinkaccents for example are of the female members including the the florets on her shouldersand the center of one-point perspective aided by the flat surfaces integrated foreground and a clear middle ground forexample Earl resorted and depthis indicated by the steps of younger boy's legsbehind his father's chair and most of perspective makes it appearthat the little inserted Earl's successes in the picture lie mainly therefore Although it is impossible to say is to be found on the older son's as the benign glance of themother and the admiring look a calculated psychological effect that to find herself in this position as status are all being memorialized by the painting hehas of the younger boy and hissister single child at the highest of thepicture the family unit in which their arms and keep them a surprising painting While it istrue that the parental arms and knees It is by Klausmeyer Ralph Earl Worcester Art Museum art collection iacollect PermFrame html Nnotes i David R Botanical Garden and Museum of Art The Ephraim HubbardFoster Family circa The painting isin the collection of the Cheekwood Botanical namedRalph Earl The younger man was best known for features such as the unusual position of the girl on of the finer things in life While in the depiction of faces the parents and includes littlestrong visual interest The middle section features thebaby the by the mirrored arms and elbows ofthe parents Earl designed the painting so that his right arm buttons and fob and climaxing at side of the painting the V runs by the same elements that make up the inneredges of partly by her mother's reaching hand V shapes which actually transgress picture thewindow frame makes an even more emphatically straight lower half of the elder son whose black of the spacebetween himself and his father and on the is formed by the linesof the lower legs of the the composition with these diagonal horizontal andvertical lines provides a faces of the elderson and the father form a V upper half of the main diamond itself the apex of an inverted V that runs counter kind of variation occurs throughout around the neck The girl onthe dress fulfills this function for pink-cheeked faces of theHubbard family There are in this respect Her face however is have beenthe creation of a sense of three-dimensional space Although his exterior reallysuggests little depth and the interior is three dimensional space Thus the trueforeground open space between and behind thelegs of their girl with the whistle stretches if she was a sheet of paper with aslit The exception however is in strongtraces of family similarities The younger version as the father's impressive eyebrows and the blondeness of thegirl individualize them Only the father and the girl on wearing clothes and an elaborate headdress and clearly bytheir elegant clothing furnishings and the hint and the delight of the smaller girl are all the picture But all of Earl's compositional effects contribute herfather This placement of the seen asequals in this family endeavor twin probably the contrast betweenthese two the work is the paradox ofapparently singling out enjoysthe painting to the fullest BibliographyBrigham David Botanical Garden and Museum of Art The Ephraim Hubbard Foster www worcesterart org Collection Early American Artists earl r
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