Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British

Title:

Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will'

Date:

1820

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on board

Dimensions:

7 1/2 x 10 inches (19.1 x 25.4 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Dated center, illegible: "1[?]20"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1981.25.679

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Publications:

Charles Edward Cutts Dirch, Wilkie's Letters to Perry Nursey, The Academy, Academy Publishing Co., London, September 28, 1878, Available via Periodicals Archive Online

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 250-251, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

David Wilkie, The National Magazine, 1, July 1830, p.33-38, WD 9160 LSF Also available via JSTOR

Davidson Publisher, Literature and Science, The Literary Chronicle, London, December 23, 1826, p. 815, Available online at British Periodicals Collection II

Flavia Dietrich, A Picture for the Barvarian King: David Wilkie's The Reading of the Will (1820), British Art Journal, 4, Summer 2003, p. 37-44, N6761 B74 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online: Art Source; JSTOR databases

Flavia Dietrich, David Wilkie at Dulwich, British Art Journal, 4, Summer 2003, p. 105, N6761 .B74 Oversize YCBA

Forthcoming Lectures, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 101, The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd., Burlington, February 1959, p.79, N1 .B87 Oversize Also available online via JSTOR

Catherine Hoover, The Influence of David Wilkie's Prints in the Genre Paintings of William Sidney Mount, The American Art Journal, 13, Kennedy Galleries, Inc, New York, Summer 1981, p.32, N6505 .A618 Haas Also available online via JSTOR

Francina Irwin, Wilkie at the Crossroads, 116, The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd., April 1974, p.214, N1 .B87 YCBA

Leslie Leibensperger Williams, Pinafore Painters: Childhood Genre in Regency and Victorian Art [PhD Dissertation, Indiana University], Bloomington, 1990, p. 353, fig. 13, Available online at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Arthur S. Marks, Wilkie, Hogarth, and Hazlitt: The Reading of a Will, Its Origins and Legacy, Studies in Romanticism, 48, Winter 2009, H10 .St963 LSF Also available online via JSTOR

Edward Croft Murray, An Exhibition of Drawings by Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (1785-1841), 74, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Feb 1939, p.91-93, N1 .B87

Royal Academy, The Graphic, 1, London, June 25, 1870, p. 707, SML, Folio Collection

Sales by Auction, The Times, London, April 14,1842, p.8, Available online via Times Digital Archive

David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, p.169, fig. 140, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)

The Royal Academy, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 29, J.W. Parker and Son, London, June 4, 1870, p. 737-738, A88 +Sa8 LSF Also available online via British Periodicals II

Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Autobiography of John Burnet, Bulletin of the American Art Union, New York, November 1850, p. 132-133, J10 +Am358D LSF

Nicholas Tromans, David Wilkie, the People's Painter, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007, p. 48-51, 122, fig. 4.4, plate 5, NJ18.W665 T765 2007 (YCBA)

Nicholas Tromans, David Wilkie: A Painter of Everyday Life, London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, p. 24, fig. 9, NJ18. W665 776 2002 (LC) OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Nora Veszpremi, The Emptiness Behind the Mask: The Second Rococo Painting in Austria and Hungary, Art Bulletin: Dec 2014, 96, p. 445, fig. 5, N11 .C4 YCBA

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1139