John Callcott Horsley1817–1903The Rival Performers
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The Rival Performers is an 1839 historical genre painting by the British artist John Callcott Horsley. It depicts a scene set at in Haddon Hall in Derbyshire during the seventeenth century. A boy playing on the oboe competes unsuccessfully with a canary in a birdcage.
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Horsley had visited Haddon Hall in 1835 and the painting is set in the dining room. The brother-in-law of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, he was a young artist at the beginning of his career when he produced this work. The painting was first displayed at the annual exhibition of the British Institution in Pall Mall in 1839. It was acquired by the noted art collector John Sheepshanks who in 1857 donated it to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington as part of the large Sheepshanks Gift. In 1870 Richard Redgrave called of the "most pleasing of Horsley's many pleasing works", suggesting it was inspired by an old story of a nightingale outperforming a minstrel.
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Some critics interpreted the subject as a young woman silencing her companion’s oboe to listen to the caged bird. Others read it as the bird out-performing the musician. The figures are wearing 17th-century costume and are set in the dining room of Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, which Horsley first visited in 1835.
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