IDENTIFIERS
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id:	1659
accession number:	437

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 29 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Oil painting on canvas, depicting the four daughters of Sir Matthew Decker. A curtain is pulled aside, revealing Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Henrietta Maria, each dressed in fine clothes. They are either holding or gesturing towards a treasured possession, these being a china doll, a silver lattice work basket piled high with fruit, a bouquet of cultivated roses, and a lapdog. These objects are resting on a carved plinth, depicting children gathered around what may be a goat.
title:	painting

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Presumably coll. Sir Matthew Decker, Bart., his maternal grandfather (d. 1749)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/1659

PEOPLE
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The daughters of Sir Matthew Decker
Portrait of a child

SUBJECTS
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toy
cloth
curtain
fashion
fruit
Interiors
toy
cloth
curtain
fashion
fruit
Interiors



TECHNIQUES
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oil on canvas
painting (image-making)

CATEGORIES
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category: painting

DATING
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creation date:	1718 - 1718
creation date earliest:	1718
creation date latest:	1718
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Meyer, Jan van

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 77.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 66.1



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Dutch Connection
title:	Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
title:	Real Families: life in Art
CITATIONS
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum
The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929)
Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,  Vol. I, Dutch and Flemish
The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
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