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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Museum number
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
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
On display?
Yes
