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| Title | The Milkmaid | |
| Collection | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Loutherbourg, Philip James de (French painter and scenographer, 1740-1812, active in Great Britain) | |
| Date Earliest | about 1800 | |
| Date Latest | about 1812 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | Loutherbourg studied art under Tischbein and Francesco Casanova. He had a successful career in Paris where he studied under Carle van Loo before moving to London in 1771. He is noted for the invention of theeidophusikon, an entertainment that showed moving pictures of shipwrecks and other exciting scenes through the manipulation of coloured lights. This painting belongs to the rustic genre. The style of the brushwork suggests a date of the second half of his English period. |
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| Current Accession Number | 1920P682 | |
| Former Accession Number | P.682´20 | |
| Inscription | front (?) 'P. J. de Loutherbourg' | |
| Subject | everyday life (milkmaid) | |
| Measurements | 36.6 x 45.1 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by the John Feeney Bequest Fund 1920. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | National Library of Wales, 1956; Peintures et Aquarelles Anglaises, Lyon, 1966, cat. no. 73; Two Centuries of English Painting, Prague & Bratislava, 1969, cat. no. 94; P. J. de Loutherbourg, Kenwood House, 1973, cat. no. 13; Pittura Inglese 1660 - 1840, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1975, cat. no. 55. | |
| Publications | Ormond, R., 'Victorian Painting and Patronage', Apollo, 1968, p. 251; Catalogue of Paintings in Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, 1960; Foreign Paintings in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, A Summary Catalogue, 1983. | |
| Notes | Not examined. Location of signature unknown. | |
| Rights Owner | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth | |