Room: 1540-1650

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Room: 1540-1650발음듣기

This is the first room of the walk through British art.발음듣기

The earliest part of the collection dating from around the 1540s through to 1650s from the last years of the reign of Henry VIII through the period of Elizabeth I and the Armada through to Charles I and the Civil War period of the 1640s.발음듣기

So covering a long period of the early period of British art, and a very eventful period of British painting.발음듣기

This painting is a real favorite and an icon of the Tate Collection because it's so unusual and it's so striking in its appearance.발음듣기

It's an evocation of the dress that was thought to be worn by Irish foot soldiers bare-legged so that they could go through the boggy lands of the Irish landscape.발음듣기

Captain Thomas Lee was a soldier active in Ireland.발음듣기

At this time, he was suspected of treachery and thought to be a traitor.발음듣기

This painting was probably produced to convey his loyalty to the Queen and to the Crown.발음듣기

He wanted to secure greater funds and soldiers for his campaign to colonise and subjugate Ireland for the Queen.발음듣기

This striking painting is quite unusual for British art of this period in that it shows quite a lavish still life.발음듣기

Still life painting really becomes established in Britain in the late seventeenth century.발음듣기

The painting also reveals the artist's interest in gardening and horticulture, the cultivation of plants.발음듣기

This was becoming increasingly fashionable in this period and Nathaniel Bacon took a great interest in this.발음듣기

We have a variety of grape on display here which was a new introduction from America and the melons that we can see prominently displayed near the cook maid herself were grown on his own estates.발음듣기

The painting is also unusual in that the artist himself, was of the gentry the son of the leading Baronet of Britain who doesn’t have to paint for professional reasons and he paints for his own pleasure.발음듣기

At first glance, this painting seems to be a celebration of the birth of a child within a family.발음듣기

The mother in the bed, the midwife holding the baby.발음듣기

But on closer inspection we can see that the midwife is in fact a lady of high status and that the lady, or the woman, in the bed is pale and deathly.발음듣기

Closer inspection reveals that the woman in the bed is in fact the dead first wife of the chap standing here and that the woman holding the baby is in fact his second wife.발음듣기

This painting really encapsulates this early period of British art in that it focuses on portraiture, depicting people.발음듣기

It shows the family dynasty and status and this is what really dominates British art from the early period.발음듣기

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