En famille - three family groups

In his apartments at the Tuileries, Louis XVIII receives his nephew the duc d'Angoulême, victorious commander-in-chief of the Pyrenees Army. Standing beside the duc is his wife, "Madame Royale", Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, duchesse d'Angoulême; only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, she had been married off to her first cousin while in exile in 1799. Behind the king is the comte d'Artois, the future Charles X, who holds in his arms his grandson, Henri-Charles-Ferdinand-Marie-Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux. The child was the only son - born posthumously - of the duc de Berry who had been assassinated in 1820. His widow, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry, stands beside her first surviving child, Louise-Marie-Thérèse d'Artois.

Louis XVIII recevant le duc d'Angoulême à son retour de la campagne d'Espagne (Louis XVIII receiving 

the duc d’Angoulême on his return from the campaign of Spain), by Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas, 1823.

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За чайным столом (At the Tea Table), by Alexei Voloskov, 1851.

This group-portrait-as-conversation-piece was painted at the estate of Grigori Stepanovich Tarnovsky, Kachanivka/Kachanovka, Chernihiv Oblast, the Ukraine. In a room decorated with Gothic style motifs, Voloskov portrayed the owner of the estate seated at the table on the left. Leaning on the back of his chair, stands his brother (?)Vasili Tarnovsky, a prominent public figure on the peasant question, while seated across the table from him is his wife Lyudmila Vladimirovna. The girl in the white dress is Vasili's daughter, Yulia Vasilievna.

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Retrato da Família do 1.º Visconde de Santarém (Portrait of the Family of the 1st Viscount of Santarém), by Domingos Antonio Sequeira, 1816.

João Diogo de Barros Leitão Carvalhosa, the 1st Viscount of Santarém, is portrayed here with his second wife, their five children, and his younger brother, D. António Roberto, archbishop of Adrianopolis. The portrait hanging over the mantlepiece depicts his first-born son - from his first marriage - with his aunt and uncle, the Viscounts of Vila Nova da Rainha, sister and brother-in-law, respectively, of the Viscount of Santarém. The statuette on the table represents King João VI, who ascended the throne of Portugal in March 1816.