| Newsmongers | |
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| Artist | David Wilkie |
| Year | 1821 |
| Type | Oil on mahogany, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 43.7 cm× 36.1 cm(17.2 in× 14.2 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
Newsmongers is an 1821 genre painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie. It portrays a group gathered around a man and woman holding up a newspaper. [1] The group includes a baker carrying a pie and roast joint. [2] The news being read is not specified, but its been speculated that might be news of the Napoleonic Wars or the more recent Trial of Queen Caroline. [3]
The work was commissioned by General Edmund Phipps, the brother of the politician and art collector Lord Mulgrave. [4] It was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1821 at Somerset House. [5] It is now in the collection of Tate Britain, having been acquired for the nation via Robert Vernon in 1847. [6]