The Schutz Family and Their Friends on a Terrace

The Schutz Family and Their Friends on a Terrace
Artist	Philippe Mercier
Year	1725
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	102.2 cm × 125.7 cm (40.2 in × 49.5 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London

The Schutz Family and Their Friends on a Terrace is a 1725 oil painting by the German artist Philip Mercier.^[1][2] A Conversation piece, it depicts Augustus Schutz and his family. Schutz was from Hanover and the painting has been read as an endorsement of the Hanoverian Succession with its symbology of the White Horse of Hanover and an orange tree representing William III.^[3] The Berlin-born Schutz was of Huguenot origin. He settled in London and worked there for most of his career. Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain, having been purchased in 1980.^[4]

References

1. Richard p 15-16
2. Shawe-Taylor p.67
3. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mercier-the-schutz-family-and-their-friends-on-a-terrace-t03065
4. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mercier-the-schutz-family-and-their-friends-on-a-terrace-t03065

Bibliography

• Richard, Jessica. The Romance of Gambling in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Shawe-Taylor, Desmond. The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life. Royal Collection Publications, 2009.