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Guess My Name, David Wilkie, 1821
Sir David Wilkie, portraitSir David WilkieScottish, 1785–1841

Guess My Name

1821 · Drawing and Watercolor

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Where is “Guess My Name” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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About the work

This drawing is a preparatory study for a genre scene commissioned by a German nobleman in 1820 and shown at the Royal Academy in 1821. Executed in the three-chalk technique, the sheet betrays the influence of Rubens’s drawings, which Wilkie could have seen in Paris in 1814. In a subject of the artist’s own devising, a young woman covers a potential suitor’s eyes, but will he identify her correctly?

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Accession number
2007.292

What it shows

Child

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Drawings & watercolorsGraphiteNeoclassicismRomanticism19th centuryUnited Kingdom

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