The Young Cricketer is a 1768 portrait painting by the British artist Francis Cotes. It depicts Lewis Cage, a boy from Milgate House near Maidstone in Kent.[1] He is shown holding a cricket bat and standing in front of a wicket which at the time consisted of only two stumps. The heroic pose of the composition is formed by the use of the bat.[2] The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1769, the inaugural Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy held in Pall Mall.[3]

References

  1. ^ Wright & Postle p.48
  2. ^ Von Mallinckrodt p.188
  3. ^ https://chronicle250.com/1769

Bibliography

  • Allen, Julia. Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale: Sport, Health and Exercise in eighteenth-century England. James Clarke & Company, 2012.
  • Von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka. A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
  • Wright, Amina & Postle, Martin. Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children from Hogarth to Lawrence. Holburne Museum of Art, 2005.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Cricketer
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