Newsmongers
| Newsmongers | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | David Wilkie |
| Year | 1821 |
| Type | Oil on mahogany, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 43.7 cm × 36.1 cm (17.2 in × 14.2 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
Newsmongers is an 1821 genre painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie. It portrays a group gathered around a man and woman holding up a newspaper.[1] The group includes a baker carrying a pie and roast joint. [2] The news being read is not specified, but its been speculated that might be news of the Napoleonic Wars or the more recent Trial of Queen Caroline.[3]
The work was commissioned by General Edmund Phipps, the brother of the politician and art collector Lord Mulgrave.[4] It was displayed at the Royal Academy's 1821 Summer Exhibition.[5] It is now in the collection of Tate Britain, having been acquired for the nation via Robert Vernon in 1847.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Noon & Bann p.110
- ^ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilkie-newsmongers-n00331
- ^ Tromans p.89
- ^ Tromans p.89
- ^ Tromans p.11
- ^ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilkie-newsmongers-n00331
Bibliography
[edit]- Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.
- Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
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