The Cheat Detected
| The Cheat Detected | |
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| Artist | Edward Bird |
| Year | 1814 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 43 cm × 56 cm (17 in × 22 in) |
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The Cheat Detected is an 1814 oil painting by the British artist Edward Bird. It depicts a fight breaking out when it is discovered that one of the players in a card game has been cheating.[1] It was part of the tradition of genre paintings popular in the Regency era produced by figures such as Bird and David Wilkie, that harked back to scenes of everyday life produced by Old Masters during the Dutch Golden Age.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1814 held at Somerset House in London. His friend and protégé Edward Villiers Rippingille, a fellow member of the Bristol School submitted a different painting with the same title and subject.[2] It was acquired by the architect and art collector John Soane, a Bird's fellow member of the Royal Academy, following his death in 1819 and today hangs in Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Solkin p.257
- ↑ Richardson p.21
- ↑ https://collections.soane.org/object-p149
Bibliography
[edit]- Richardson, Sarah. Edward Bird, 1772-1819. Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 1982.
- Solkin, David H. Painting Out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Nineteenth-century Britain. Yale University Press, 2008.
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