This armchair is designed in the George II picturesque fashion as popularised by William de la Cour's First Book of Ornament, 1741. Contemporary chairs of simpler design appear to have belonged to the artist Francis Hayman (d.1776) since they appear in so many of his portraits (see L. Gowing, 'Hogarth, Hayman, and the Vauxhall Decorations' Burlington Magazine, January 1953, p. 13, fig. 11).
This armchair is designed in the George II picturesque fashion as popularised by William de la Cour's First Book of Ornament, 1741. Contemporary chairs of simpler design appear to have belonged to the artist Francis Hayman (d.1776) since they appear in so many of his portraits (see L. Gowing, 'Hogarth, Hayman, and the Vauxhall Decorations' Burlington Magazine, January 1953, p. 13, fig. 11).
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