Robert Braithwaite Martineau, 1862
The Last Day in the Old Home
This work is typical of the social moralist pictures that were popular in Victorian art. The Pulleyne family has been forced to sell the ancestral home, Hardham Court, and its contents, thanks to the irresponsible behaviour of a feckless spendthrift. Despite the hopelessness of their situation, only the women in the family appear concerned, while the man and his son raise glasses of champagne, preferring to live for the moment. The implication is that he will pass his hedonistic lifestyle and gambling habit down to the next generation.
https://kartinysistoriey.ru/pochemu-eta-semya-provodit-poslednij-den-v-svoyom-starom-dome
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martineau-the-last-day-in-the-old-home-n01500
This work is typical of the social moralist pictures that were popular in Victorian art. The Pulleyne family has been forced to sell the ancestral home, Hardham Court, and its contents, thanks to the irresponsible behaviour of a feckless spendthrift. Despite the hopelessness of their situation, only the women in the family appear concerned, while the man and his son raise glasses of champagne, preferring to live for the moment. The implication is that he will pass his hedonistic lifestyle and gambling habit down to the next generation.
https://kartinysistoriey.ru/pochemu-eta-semya-provodit-poslednij-den-v-svoyom-starom-dome
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martineau-the-last-day-in-the-old-home-n01500