Framed oil painting: Edward Shuter, John Beard and John Dunstall in ‘Love in a Village’ by Isaac Bickerstaffe, Johan Zoffany (1733–1810), oil on canvas c.1767

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2010.2.3

Object

Framed oil painting: Edward Shuter, John Beard and John Dunstall in ‘Love in a Village’ by Isaac Bickerstaffe, Johan Zoffany (1733–1810), oil on canvas c.1767

Gallery label

Edward Shuter, John Beard and John Dunstall in ‘Love in a Village’
Johan Zoffany (1733–1810)
Oil on canvas, c.1767

Love in a Village is a comic ballad opera with music arranged by Thomas Arne. In Zoffany’s painting the central figure is John Beard, one of Handel’s favourite tenors. He plays a farmer visiting his neighbour Justice Woodcock, who wears an expensive gold-trimmed suit and wig.

Zoffany has included a copy of Van Dyck’s Children of Charles I, a portrait that would have been familiar to him as he was working for the Royal family at this time.

2010.2.4
The Somerset Maugham Collection, transferred from the National Theatre

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Yes
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