Conversation pieces and novels, by fictionally portraying situations from real life, differ from the allegorical portraits and epic poetry preferred by the nobility.
Conversation Piece
The conversation piece painting was started in the Netherlands by such artists as Coques and later became popular with English painters such as Hogarth, Devis and Zoffany.
Conversation Piece: - A portrait of a group of earnest people. Also a Object or a work of art that is sure to attract attention and have the visitors and onlookers converse about the piece. Return to top ...
conversation piece or conversation galante - A portrait of a group of earnest people. "Conversation galante" is the original and French form of this term, often equivalent to or a variant of the fête galante, made popular by Watteau.
Also see conversation piece and point of view.
ancien régime - French for the old order; the feudal, absolute monarchy in France before the French Revolution in 1789.
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Among Strauss's late works is the conversation piece Capriccio, which discusses the relative importance in opera of words and music.
By 1725 he was painting small conversation pieces; these he extended to full-scale portraits in Captain Coram (1740), the Painter's Servants (c. 1760), Self-portrait (1745), the Shrimp Girl (c. 1760) and The Actor Garrick and his Wife (1757).
 See also: Portrait, Painting, Academy, School, Catalogue
  
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