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- David Wilkie (1785 - 1841)
- The Sportsman
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- Date: 1824
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on mahogany panel
- Object size: 26.8 x 31 cm
- Image size: 25.5 x 29.6 cm
- Object size: with frame, 42.5 x 46 x 6.5 cm
- Inv: P357
- Location: West Gallery II
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- A label on the verso indicates that the picture was painted for General the Hon. Edmund Phipps (1760-1837). It adds that the sportsman is Phipps’s nephew, Colonel Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801-66), and the farmer’s daughter pouring the sportsman a drink is Phipps’s niece, Lady Lepel Charlotte Phipps (d.1869). Scenes of this kind recall seventeenth-century Dutch painting which was a great influence on Wilkie (cf.Metsu, 'The Sleeping Sportsman', P251).