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John Hoppner (artist) British, 1758 - 1810 The Hoppner Children, 1791 oil on canvas overall: 152.5 x 127 cm (60 1/16 x 50 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.35 Not on View |
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Conservation Notes
The medium-coarse canvas is tightly twill woven; it has been lined, but the tacking margins survive intact. The ground is white, of moderate thickness. There is a fairly thin medium gray imprimatura. These two layers mask much of the weave of the fabric. The painting is executed in moderately thick opaque layers with no notable areas of impasto; thinner layers of more transparent glazes modify the foreground and background landscape and shadowed areas and details of the figures. There is a broad craquelure. The paint is abraded and damaged in the region of the sky and the figures, but areas of retouching are not apparent through the discolored varnish. The paint surface has been flattened slightly during lining. The moderately thick slightly toned natural resin varnish has discolored yellow to a significant degree.| « | back to gallery | » | continue tour |