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In this painting, two children present a bottle of wine to the grandmother who sits outside a rustic cottage. Beyond is a country mansion surrounded by trees. The sentimental narrative of the painting suggests the care and consideration given to the grandmother, whose daughter advantageously married the owner of the mansion. Nothing is allowed to intrude into the happiness of the occasion.

The artist is remembered as a painter of picturesque genre scenes often with sentimental moralising overtones, which conformed to the taste of his day. So popular were the subjects of his paintings that many of them were reproduced as engravings.

Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster

Lancaster

Title

A Bottle of Wine

Date

c.1815

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 55.6 x W 45.3 cm

Accession number

LANMS.1991.406.5

Acquisition method

bequeathed by George Palmer Holt through the Art Fund, 1992

Work type

Painting

Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster

Church Street, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1YS England

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Artist or maker

William Redmore Bigg

1755–1828

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