The Tallmadge Family Art Analysis

1. This work of art represents a higher class in society; one element of the art work that expresses this is the clothes that these people are wearing. People’s clothing attire – back then and even still today – can almost always give you an accurate idea, or at least a good clue, of what a person’s social status is. The painting of the Tallmadge family is a good supporting detail towards this point – “the opulence of the Tallmadges’ clothing and surroundings in these paintings abundantly testifies to the wealth, and the social pretensions, of the Federalist elite” (215). ***
2. “The most impressive by-product of the War of 1812 was a heightened nationalism” (240). With John Marshall in position as Chief Justice, judicial nationalism was unmistakable