Study for 'Guess my name'

Details

Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (1785-1841)
Study for 'Guess my name'
pen and brown ink, shaped
3 1/8 x 3¾ in. (7.9 x 9.5 cm.)

Provenance

Gilbert Davis, L. 757a.
with Spink, London.

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Lot Essay

This is a study for Wilkie's Royal Academy exhibit of 1821 (private collection). Wilkie's ability to weave narrative into domestic genre was a profound influence upon painters of the nineteenth centruy. Sophie Anderson treated the same subject, but in an Italianate setting (see The Forbes sale of Victorian Pictures & Works of Art, Christie's, London, 20 February 2003, lot 290.)

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