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Reading the Will
Painting by David Wilkie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Reading the Will is an 1820 genre painting by the British artist David Wilkie. It is inspired by a scene from the 1815 novel Guy Mannering the Waverley series by Walter Scott[1] although this was not widely appreciated by contemporary critics.[2]
The painting was commissioned by Maximilian I of Bavaria. It was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1820 at Somerset House in London.[3] Today it is in the collection of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.[4]
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See also
- The Reading of the Will Concluded, an 1811 painting of a similar theme by Edward Bird
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