Fancy pictures

Fancy pictures

Fancies was a term coined in 1737 by the art critic and historian George Vertue to describe genre scenes that also incorporated invented or imagined elements, or a storyline. He invented in to describe the paintings of Philip Mercier, such as "Venetian Girl at a Window" or the series "The Five Senses". The extended term for the same sub-genre, fancy pictures was invented by Joshua Reynolds to describe paintings with beggar or peasant children produced by Thomas Gainsborough in his final decades.

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* [http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=101 Tate Britain]


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