Allegory of Painting
Artist: Attributed to Charles Lucy (English, 1692 - after 1768)
Date: 1760
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom
Summary
Three figures in an artist studio. A young male figure is standing, wearing a white and red smock draped in green. He is looking towards a seated young female figure and has his right arm around her shoulders. She is wearing a white and gold dress and is draped in blue. Her hair is tied up in a braid with stones. She is looking towards the male. In her left hand she is holding a paint pallet and she has a paint brush in her right hand. A putti or cherub is seated at her feet reclining on stone sculptures (a bust and a stone foot). He is holding a paintbrush and a tablet. The young man has a paintbrush in his left hand as if working on the painting of a young lady that sits on an easel to his left side. In the background is an elaborate stone carving.