Page of Reading the Will by WILKIE, Sir David in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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Reading the Will
1820
Oil on canvas, 76 x 115 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Narrative painting was fashionable in Britain, and one of the most celebrated painters in this genre was Sir David Wilkie. The Reading the Will was commissioned by the King of Bavaria, Max I Joseph, and it immediately made the artist famous.