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Canvas and Stretcher
DISTANCE LEARNING
Canvas and Stretcher
Key Stage 2 and 3 Maths
The Capel's Garden
Explore the rule which tells you whether a pattern of paths can be walked along without going on any path twice through looking at the portrait of the Capel Family.
Lining up time
Quite a few portraits show several people standing or sitting in a line. Work out how many different ways this could be done and why the artist chose a certain arrangement.
William Jones and Circles
Explore pi in relation to circles and the work of the mathematician William Jones.
William Hogarth's self-portrait
Explore the Fibonacci series in relation to balance and proportion in a self-portrait by William Hogarth.
Related portraits
- The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, 1605 (NPG 334a)
- Five Children of King Charles I (NPG 267)
- The Capel Family (NPG 4759)
- The Family of Sir Robert Vyner (NPG 5568)
- Jonathan Tyers and his family (NPG 5588)
- William Jones (NPG 5734)
- William Hogarth (NPG 289)
- David Garrick; Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel) (NPG 5375)
- Sir William Chambers; Joseph Wilton; Sir Joshua Reynolds (NPG 987)