Roses, and other flowers
Watercolour
1770-1819 (painted)
1770-1819 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Watercolour depicting a flower arrangement
Object details
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| Title | Roses, and other flowers (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour, Roses and other flowers, by Mary Moser, 1770-1819. |
| Physical description | Watercolour depicting a flower arrangement |
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| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Still life (which included flower painting) was the lowest genre of painting in the eighteenth century. Reynolds, in his Discourses, described it as an 'excellent art' but stressed that the highest ambition of the still life painter could only be 'to give a minute representation of every part of those low objects which he sets before him'. The painter of still life was thus relegated to the role of copyist, and denied the respect accorded to those who united imaginative power with technical skill. Flower painting was readily assimilated to the decorative and in fact Moser painted an entire room (at Frogmore House, Windsor, one of the royal residences) with naturalistic floral motifs for Queen Charlotte. Moser, like Kauffmann, was later to exhibit history pictures at the RA, but it is on the more stereotypically feminine flower pieces that her reputation rests. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 160-1881 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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