The Fortune Teller (Poynter)

The Fortune Teller
Artist	Edward Poynter
Year	1877
Type	Oil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions	62.2 cm× 76.5 cm(24.5 in× 30.1 in)
Location	Royal Academy, London

The Fortune Teller is an 1877 historical genre painting by the British artist Edward Poynter. ^{[1] [2]} It depicts a scene in an Ancient Greek bathouse, where an aristocratic woman consults a fortune teller.

Poynter presented the painting to the Royal Academy of Arts at his diploma work. ^[3] He later served as President of the Royal Academy from 1896 to 1918. ^[4]

References

1. Wright & Gordon p.649
2. Bury p.230
3. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-fortune-teller
4. Hartley p.150

Bibliography

• Bury, Stephen (ed.) Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, Volume 1. OUP, 2012.
• Hartley, Lucy. Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press, 2006.