Reading the Will

Reading the Will
ArtistDavid Wilkie
Year1820
TypeOil on Canvas, genre painting
Dimensions76 cm × 115 cm (30 in × 45 in)
LocationNeue Pinakothek, Munich

Reading the Will is an 1820 genre painting by the British artist David Wilkie. It is inspired by a scene from the 1815 novel Guy Mannering the Waverley series by Walter Scott[1] although this was not widely appreciated by contemporary critics.[2]

The painting was commissioned by Maximilian I of Bavaria. It was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1820 at Somerset House in London.[3] Today it is in the collection of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.[4]

See also

  • The Reading of the Will Concluded, an 1811 painting of a similar theme by Edward Bird

References

  1. ^ Tromans p.97
  2. ^ https://chronicle250.com/1820
  3. ^ Tromans p.10
  4. ^ https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/5RGQkklxz3

Bibliography

  • Macmillan, Duncan. Scottish Art, 1460-2000. Mainstream Publishing, 2000.
  • Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
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