How influential was portraiture between 16th and 18th century in communicating social shifts surrounding ideas of the parochial family unit?
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Beardmore, Carol, Cara Dobbing, and Steven King. Family Life in Britain, 1650–1910. Springer, 2019. Berry, Helen, and Elizabeth Foyster. The Family in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press, 2007. Brown, Kenneth D. The British Toy Business: A History Since 1700. A&C Black, 1996. Capp, B. S. When Gossips Meet: Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early… Read more
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Assessed Post 4: Portrait of Sir William Pepperrell and his family, Painted by John Singleton Copley (1778)
Looking towards the final part of the early modern period, one primary aspect has remained constant throughout each of the paintings and the way in which they communicated ideas, the dominance of the bourgeoise. The values put across subsequently became transient in and of themselves, spurring the emergence of the luxury goods market as aforementioned… Read more
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