A Sporting Conversation Piece
by AKEN, Joseph van, Oil on canvas, 58 x 71 cm
In this sporting conversation piece two gentlemen with their guns and dogs rest at the edge of a wood; a third approaches them whilst a fourth, gun in hand, walks into the wood. The artist executed a number of sporting conversations of the present type which depict the Rural Squire enjoying his sport in the company of his friends. The figures are rather elongated in a slightly mannerist way and adopt curiously “elegant” poses.