# A Sporting Conversation Piece [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AKEN, Joseph van]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 58 x 71 cm ## Commentary A Sporting Conversation Piece c. 1730 Oil on canvas, 58 x 71 cm Private collection 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. ## Related artworks - [A Vegetable Seller and his Son]() - [The Van Aken Brothers]() - [Vegetable and Fruit Market]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()