03 — ARTWORK
Reading the Will
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 76 x 115 cm
- TYPE
- Genre
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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Narrative painting was fashionable in Britain, and one of the most celebrated painters in this genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. 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.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Reading the Will by WILKIE, Sir David},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wilkie-sir-david-r784f49b93b5a2b/reading-the-will-r6aa8d443f35edd},
urldate = {2026-09-09},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
