ARHS 3600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Shark Bait, Hudson River School, Double Consciousness
23 Apr 2016
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Originally marriage portrait, addition of child makes it a family portrait. Family life is sacred, celebrate family values, marital domesticity. Wearing cap, but some blonde hair still visible. Attire: (illegal) spanish lace, embroidered fine colorful fabrics, jewelry: triple strands of pearls, garnet bracelet, gold rings. Not austere (not in line with puritan values) Many imported goods/materials from around the world. Merchants (and wives) push limits of within moderation as tolerated by sermons and lawmakers. In 1669, general court tried to legislate against ostentatious apparel/excessive pride on moral grounds. Spanish lace/fabric were prohibited by parliament in england, so needed to be smuggled into colonies (indicates family merchant class colonies had indomitable spirit and will dress however they"d like) Furniture: precedent in portraiture: complementary reference to wealth and prosperity. Chair: emblem of success, relative affluence, and social class. English migrant turned shipowner-merchant-property owner, so high social ranking (able to afford portraits)
