Painting entitled "The Artist's Children" has two small children
sitting on the floor on a wrinkled rug, in semidarkness, looking at a
book, with dim light from a perceived fireplace coming from the left. 
The boy holds the book, and the smaller girl holds a feather quill
pen.  It is done indark browns.

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Clarification of Question by mac1940-ga on 18 Jan 2005 10:53 PST

It may also be titled, "The artist's Children Reading"

Hi,
I found this link, that partialy matches painting's description:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/amico498943-2863.html
luntes

wrong painting

wrong picture

Do you know the approximate date of the work? 
What style is it? (e.g. impressionist?) 
From what country do you think it originates? 
Where have you seen it? (e.g. in a book or in a gallery?)
This kind of info might offer more clues for people wanting to help you.

Hi,
I e-mailed Boston Athenaeum with this question below:
Dear Sirs,
Can you please confirm if this a description of Turner's painting "The
Artist's Children Reading", in the exhibit "Seen but not heard"?
 
 The painting shows two small children sitting on the floor on a
wrinkled rug, in semidarkness, looking at a book, with dim light from
a perceived fireplace coming from the left. The boy holds the book,
and the smaller girl holds a feather quill pen.  It is done indark
browns.

Thanks a lot
luntes

And that's what they told me:

Charles M. Turner's "The Artist's Children Reading" did appear in our
exhibition "Seen but not Heard."  However, it is now in storage.  I
showed your description to David Dearinger, our Curator of Art, and he
said it sounded accurate, but if you planned on publishing your
description, he said to let him know & he would make time to go into
storage and compare it with the original.  I hope this has been helpful.

Sincerely,

Mary Warnement
Reference Librarian
Boston Athenaeum
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
warnement@bostonathenaeum.org
www.bostonathenaeum.org
617.720.7658

P.S. - I forgot to mention that if you wanted to purchase a black and white
print of the painting, you could contact Pat Boulos
boulos@bostonathenaeum.org .

luntes

Couldn't you search www.st-ives.net/selected-art or www.denarend.com?
But I suppose it would be best if you would put a photo of the
painting up somewhere and give the URL here.
Lucien

Thank you luntes, I wrote the Atheneum some time ago, but have not yet
heard from Boulos.   Mac1940-ga