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 Exhibition of 1821 at Somerset House.[5] It is now in the collection of Tate Britain, having been acquired for the nation via Robert Vernon in 1847.[6]

References

  1. ^ Noon & Bann p.110
  2. ^ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilkie-newsmongers-n00331
  3. ^ Tromans p.89
  4. ^ Tromans p.89
  5. ^ Tromans p.11
  6. ^ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wilkie-newsmongers-n00331

Bibliography

  • 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.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsmongers
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