William MulreadyStorbritannien, 1786–1863A Sailing Match
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London, Storbritannien
SalPaintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries
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About the painting
This painting is a classic example of Mulready's interest in contrasting the value of formal education wtih the process of learning through play. A wealthy boy on his way to school - indeed, Mulready subtitled the picture 'creeping like a snail unwillingly to school' (Shakespeare, As You Like It) - wistfully gazes at a group of poor children who attempt to blow their toy boat along with a roughly improvised roll of paper as he is led away from temptation by his mother or nurse. Such pictorial analogies have their root in the moralising genre scenes of 17th-century Dutch painting.
Victoria and Albert Museum
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- FA.147[O]
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