A Cottage Exterior: A Seated Labourer Filling His Pipe
Oil Painting
1793 (painted)
1793 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
This painting is the pair of An Old Woman Preparing Tea which is also in the V&A (Museum no.199-1885). Both paintings were shown at the Royal Academy, London, in 1794, with the titles The Husbandman's Enjoyment and Poor Old Woman's Comfort, respectively.
The artist, William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828), painted portaits of the gentry. He also painted ‘genre’ scenes such as these, featuring sentimental images of rustic life and especially cottage interiors and exteriors peopled by a virtuous and hard-working peasantry. The public could enjoy such images for their tasteful, if idealised, representation of tranquillity and contentment.
The artist, William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828), painted portaits of the gentry. He also painted ‘genre’ scenes such as these, featuring sentimental images of rustic life and especially cottage interiors and exteriors peopled by a virtuous and hard-working peasantry. The public could enjoy such images for their tasteful, if idealised, representation of tranquillity and contentment.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A Cottage Exterior: A Seated Labourer Filling His Pipe (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'A Cottage Exterior: a Seated Labourer Filling his Pipe', William Redmore Bigg, 1793 |
| Physical description | Oil painting |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'W R Bigg 1793' (Signed and dated by the artist) |
| Object history | Probably exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1794 [25] as `The husbandman's enjoyment.' |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | This painting is the pair of An Old Woman Preparing Tea which is also in the V&A (Museum no.199-1885). Both paintings were shown at the Royal Academy, London, in 1794, with the titles The Husbandman's Enjoyment and Poor Old Woman's Comfort, respectively. The artist, William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828), painted portaits of the gentry. He also painted ‘genre’ scenes such as these, featuring sentimental images of rustic life and especially cottage interiors and exteriors peopled by a virtuous and hard-working peasantry. The public could enjoy such images for their tasteful, if idealised, representation of tranquillity and contentment. |
| Associated object | |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 198-1885 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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