ca. 1850 The Last In by William Mulready ; School Boy Children Teacher Boys Dog

Description: Original antique steel engraving : " The Last In " " From The Picture In The Vernon Gallery " London , For the Proprietors W. Mulready , R. A., Painter J. T. Smyth , Engraver W. Day , Printer A boy ( and a dog ) arrives late into a school room where the master and other children are already present. Engraving by J. T. Smyth after an original painting by William Mulready. The artist, William Mulready RA ( 1786 - 1863 ), was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticising depictions of rural scenes. Heavyweight paper, 9 7/8" x 12 1/4" Image size ( not including text ), 7 5/16" x 9 1/16" Undated, however this was printed in the mid 1800s; circa 1850. Around 170+ years old. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer. ------------- Additional Information : ( from the Tate Art Galleries , London [ etc. ] , UK ) " The Last In " by William Mulready ( 1786- 1863 ) Painted 1834 - 1835, exhibited in 1835. The original painting , oil paint on mahogany , is in the collection of the Tate and was presented by Robert Vernon in 1847. Childhood was an important subject in Mulready’s work. He had explored narratives of school life in 1815 in The Fight Interrupted and Idle Boys , both depictions of schoolmasterly authority and discipline, the latter derived closely from Dutch 17th-century schoolroom scenes. In The Last In, painted nearly twenty years later, Mulready has brought lighthearted humour to an uncomfortable scene: a schoolmaster , with feigned deference, doffs his hat and bows ironically to a frightened latecomer. The narrative implies the punishment that will be meted out to the late arrival: in front of the master’s desk are a boy in disgrace, tied by his leg to a log, and beside him the birch rod. Mulready was fond of subjects which provoked somewhat uncomfortable feelings ...with a touch of humour and pathos. Scenes of school truancy and unpunctuality were common in nineteenth-century painting, reflecting the authoritarian nature of early 19th-century educational theory and practice. The idyllic rural landscape, seen temptingly through the window, emphasises the prison like nature of the schoolroom, and the constraining nature of the educational experience. The figures are arranged almost theatrically in a kind of foreground frieze, with a framed landscape as a backdrop to the stage-like scene. Four pen and ink sketches relating to the original painting are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and two at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Mulready apparently used earlier drawings of his own sons for the children in the painting ; the model for the tall girl to the right of the schoolmaster was Mrs. Albert Varley, his nephew’s wife , who appears in a number of other works of this period, including " A Sailing Match ." The original painting was bought by Robert Vernon for £425 in 1835; it was the first of a number of Mulready paintings which he acquired and later gave to the National Gallery as part of the Vernon Gift.

Price: 45 USD

Location: Coventry, Rhode Island

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