The Errand Boy (painting)

{{Short description|Painting by David Wilkie}}
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| title= The Errand Boy
| artist=[[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]]
| year=1818
| type=[[Oil painting|Oil on panel]], [[genre painting]]
| height_metric=38
| width_metric=50.5
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| museum=[[Private collection]]
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'''''The Errand Boy''''' is an 1818 [[oil painting]] by the British [[artist]] [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]]. Chiego p.174 A [[genre painting]], it depicts an delivery boy bringing some goods to a family in rural England. Tromans p.93-94

The Scottish Wilkie developed a reputation for his scenes of ordinary life, paying homage to [[Dutch Golden Age paintings]], and enjoyed great popularity in the [[Regency Era]]. This work was originally acquired by the [[art collector]] [[Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet|Sir John Swinburne]]. It was displayed at the [[Royal Academy Exhibition of 1818]] held at [[Somerset House]] in [[London]] and again at a [[retrospective]] staged by the [[British Institution]] in 1842. Itwas auctioned by [[Christie's]] in 2022. https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/old-master-paintings-sculpture-online/sir-david-wilkie-r-a-cults-fife-1785-1841-gibraltar-203/156501 A [[printmaking|print]] based on the painting was produced by the [[engraver]] [[Abraham Raimbach]]. https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/565012

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Chiego, William Joseph. ''Sir David Wilkie of Scotland, 1785-1841''. North Carolina Museum of Art, 1987
* Tromans, Nicholas. ''David Wilkie: The People's Painter''. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

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[[Category:1818 paintings]]
[[Category:Paintings by David Wilkie]]
[[Category: Genre paintings]]
[[Category:Paintings of horses]]
[[Category:Oil paintings on panel]]

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