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The artist is remembered as a painter of picturesque genre scenes often with sentimental moralising overtones, which conformed to the taste of his day. So popular were the subjects of his paintings that many of them were reproduced as engravings.
Title
A Bottle of Wine
Date
c.1815
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 55.6 x W 45.3 cm
Accession number
LANMS.1991.406.5
Acquisition method
bequeathed by George Palmer Holt through the Art Fund, 1992
Work type
Painting
Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster
Church Street, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1YS England
Stories
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North Side of the West Wall of Nakht's Offering Chapel (detail, middle right). c.1908–1914, drawing (facsimile) by Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941), Lancelot Crane (1880–1918), Francis Sydney Unwin (1885–1925) and Hugh R. Hopgood of a wall painting from c.1410–1370 BC. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, CC0
Divinity, drunkenness and desire: the story of wine in artAnne Wallentine