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Look down, not up. That crossed pair of red rackets on the ground - abandoned, forgotten mid-game - says more about childhood than the boy's frozen pose ever could. Portrait of Kennett Dixon Playing Shuttlecock, William Beechey, c. 1788-1792. #art #WilliamBeechey #PortraitPainting #ArtHistory #m...

A young child, Kennett Dixon, dressed in an 18th-century black velvet suit with a white ruffled collar and an oversized black hat topped with dark feathers, stands on a stone step in a wooded park landscape. He gazes upward with one arm raised, watching a shuttlecock fly overhead against a cloudy blue sky. In his other hand he holds a red-framed hand mirror. Below him, near the base of the stone step, a pair of red battledore rackets lie crossed and discarded on the ground, along with a small blue-handled i