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Keywords: RadcliffeFamily OfWarleigh ByThomasHudson.jpg en Oil painting by Thomas Hudson 1701-79 titled The Radcliffe family Walter Radcliffe of Warleigh Devon his wife Admonition and their family property of the Berger Collection Seehttp //www bergercollection org/ id 5 artwork_id 70 founded by the mutual funds manager William Merriam Bart Berger d 1999 of Denver Colorado USA Provenance By descent in the Radcliffe family until sold under the terms of the Radcliffe Chattels Settlement Sotheby's London November 13 1996 lot 52http //www bergercollection org/ id 5 artwork_id 70 It measures 126 x 174 in and is one of Hudson's largest works On display in Denver Art Museum Colorado USA on loan from the Berger Collection ref TL-17968 It depicts Walter I Radcliffe 1693-1752 of Warleigh in the parish of Tamerton Foliot Devon with his wife Admonition Bastard born 1701 4th daughter of William Bastard 1667-1704 of Gerston East Alvington Devon and their nine children Catalogue entry Berger Collection The baby boy perched upon his mother's knee is William who was born around a year before the painting was produced He was killed in action at the battle of Warburg Westphalia in 1760 Walter who holds the baby's hand inherited the family estate as the eldest surviving son when his father died in 1752 He was to be the archetypal eighteenth-century gentleman making the Grand Tour of Europe maintaining a house in London and sitting twice to Sir Joshua Reynolds; he died unmarried in 1803 Jasper the little drummer boy wearing a bright blue suit died when he was still a schoolboy; Joanna to his left married a local man The group on the left of the picture the two sisters Mary and Jane hugging each other at the back also both married respectable local men In front of them holding the tambourine and playing with the dog is the lively young Admonition who died of smallpox as a child; her brother John who has his hand on her shoulder inherited the family estate upon Walter's death in 1803 Like his elder brother he died unmarried Nearest the father Anne Grace the eldest daughter remained a spinster and lived her whole life at Warleigh It is on the whole a rather sad history for such and exuberant and optimistic-looking family Seehttp //artworld york ac uk/sourceView do sourceUrn 5 1480 05072 br no http //creativity denverartmuseum org/tl_17968/ Thomas Hudson 1701-1779 1742 File 'The Radcliffe Family' painting by Thomas Hudson ca 1742 Denver Art Museum JPG Thomas Hudson painter Berger Collection Denver Art Museum PD-old-100
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