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SIR DAVID WILKIE R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)
The Errand Boy
oil on panel
15 x 20 in. (38 x 50.5 cm.)
Provenance
Bought from the artist at the 1818 Royal Academy Exhibition by Sir John Swinburne, Bt. (1762-1860); his sale (†), Christie's, London, 15 June 1861, lot 123 (435 gns. to Agnews, probably on behalf of the following),
John Knowles, by July 1861; Christie's, London, 8 April 1865, lot 170 (1050 gns. to Farrer, presumably Henry Farrer the dealer).
Charles Frederick Huth (1806–1895), Oakhurst Manor, Kent, by 1865; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 6 July 1895, lot 119 (810 gns. to Agnews, probably on behalf of the following),
Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Bt. (1823-1906), by 1896, and by descent to the following,
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 10 November 1995, lot 34, when acquired by the present owner.Literature
New Monthly Magazine, IX, 1818, p. 44.
R. Hunt, Examiner, 7 June 1818, p. 365.
Art-Union, 1839, p. 59.
Art-Union, 1842, p. 159.
Athenaeum, 2 July 1842, p. 584.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, LII, p. 331.
A. Cunningham, Life of Sir David Wilkie London, 1843, II, p. 8; III p. 525.
Art Journal, 1865, p. 192.
C.M. Agnew, Catalogue of Pictures forming the Collection of Sir Charles Tennant, London, 1896.
R. Sutherland Gower, Sir David Wilkie London, 1902, pp. 92 and 129.
W. Bayne, Sir David Wilkie R.A., London and New York, 1903, p. 79.
H. Miles, Fourteen Small Pictures by Wilkie, exhibition catalogue, London, 1980, unpaginated, under no. 1, fig, 6.
H. Mount, 'Our British Teniers': David Wilkie and the Heritage of Netherlandish Art', in David Wilkie Painter of everyday life, exhibition catalogue, ed. N. Tromans, London, 2002, p. 37.
N. Tromans, David Wilkie The People's Painter, Edinburgh, 2007, pp. 93-94.Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, The exhibition of the Royal Academy: The fifieth, 1818, no. 110.
London, British Institution, The Works of the Late Sir David Wilkie R.A., 1842, no. 25.
London, British Institution, Loan Exhibition, 1865, no. 152.
London, Royal Academy, Old Masters, deceased masters of the British School and drawings & sketches by George Frederick Watts RA,, 1 January-10 March 1906, no. 37.
Edinburgh, Saughton Park, Scottish National Exhibition, 1 May-31 October 1908, no. 85.
Glasgow, Kelvingrove Gallery, Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art, and Industry, 1911, no. 168.
New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Sir David Wilkie of Scotland, 1987, no. 19.
London, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Sir David Wilkie 1994, no. 14.Special notice
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