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quietly at home rather than joining the elder boy on the hunt.
The painting is the work of one of the 18 century limners, that anonymous group of painters that went from town to town and house to house paipting such subjects as came their way. Alhough they were often untoutered, their freshness of vision, their sharp colors and their direct attack in setting down a likeness of the sitter frequently gave their work far more interest than that of their more academically trained but less talented colleagues. They usually concentrated on a single sitter, and usually completed their paintings on cancases far smaller than this one.
The importance of this painting stems from several facts—its unusually large scale, its inclusion of more than one sitter, its early date, its depiction of plantation life, its animation, and its record of a Virginia family.. In addition, it shows influence of the English “conversation piece”—paintings so-called because they showed two or more people at their daily amusements and conversing. It was a considerable journey for such an influence to travel—across the Atlantic and inland from the ports as far as Goochlaind Co.—and it produced
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