Londoners Gypsying

Londoners Gypsying
Artist	Charles Robert Leslie
Year	1820
Type	Oil on Canvas, genre painting
Dimensions	81.5 cm× 98.5 cm(32.1 in× 38.8 in)
Location	Museum of the Home, London

Londoners Gypsying is an 1820 genre painting by the British-American artist Charles Robert Leslie. ^{[1] [2]} It depicts a family of Londoners enjoying a picnic in Epping Forest. ^[3] It reflects the common usage of the term in the early nineteenth century to refer to outdoor leisure activities in imitation of gypsy culture. ^[4] It was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1820 at Somerset House. Today the painting is in the collection of the Museum of the Home in London, having been acquired in 1976. ^[5]

References

1. Galinou & Hayes p.587
2. Bryde p.93
3. Museum of the Home
4. Matthews p.141
5. Art UK

Bibliography

• Byrde, Penelope. Nineteenth Century Fashion. Batsford, 1992.
• Galinou, Mireille & Hayes, John. London in Paint: Oil Paintings in the Collection at the Museum of London. The Museum, 1996.
• Matthews, Jodie. The Gypsy Woman: Representations in Literature and Visual Culture. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.