An oil on board painting, a couple in Regency-themed attired...

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£1,500 - £2,000

An oil on board painting, a couple in Regency-themed attired, along with their maid. This painting belongs to a private collection in Hongkong and will be shipped from there if sold

58.42x40.64cm

This oil painting belongs to group portrait painting, which shows a couple carrying out activities such as afternoon tea or dialogue in the company of a maid. It may also be that they invited the painter to paint and are making preparations. The couple's life is rich and happy, and the picture atmosphere is also very relaxed. The writer arranges the characters in the centre of the picture to form a triangular composition, giving people a sense of stability. However, the painter emphasizes the flexible posture and rich expression of the characters when depicting the characters, which makes the painting add a little liveliness while being stable, so that people don't look too serious or frivolous. The gorgeous costumes of the protagonists show their privileged living conditions and carefree living conditions. In the picture, the characters choose bright colours in their clothes and dark brown in the background, which is the classic portrait colour matching method of academic classical aesthetics. Setting off the bright and bright characters with a dark background can make the character image appear clearer and easier to show the details carefully carved by the painter when depicting the character image.

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