Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-webster-590" aria-label="More by Thomas Webster" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Thomas Webster</a>
Late at School
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
adults
anxiety
architecture
boy
children
door
education
education, science and learning
educational and scientific
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
girl
group
groups
people
public and municipal
school
society
student
teacher
woman
work and occupations
<p>Webster was a painter of narrative genre in the tradition of David Wilkie and William Mulready. Such pictures, generally modest in size and ostensibly representing scenes of everyday life, were popular with the public and acclaimed by many critics. Although contemporary commentaries tended to focus on their realism and painterly technique, these images also expose a preoccupation with the themes of education and discipline among the lower classes. When this picture was exhibited in 1835 a critic proclaimed it ‘a charming little composition; characteristic in every object, and painted with a true feeling of the art’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
15 July 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-07-15
Exhibiting Turner
Collection based display
29 July 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
6 August 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
2010-08-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-07-29
Romantics 2
Collection based display
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2011-09-02
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-09-02
Romantics
Collection based display
Late at School
support: 457 × 377 × 10 mm
frame: 600 × 520 × 20 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
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<p>Webster was a painter of narrative genre in the tradition of David Wilkie and William Mulready. Such pictures, generally modest in size and ostensibly representing scenes of everyday life, were popular with the public and acclaimed by many critics. Although contemporary commentaries tended to focus on their realism and painterly technique, these images also expose a preoccupation with the themes of education and discipline among the lower classes. When this picture was exhibited in 1835 a critic proclaimed it ‘a charming little composition; characteristic in every object, and painted with a true feeling of the art’.</p>
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adults anxiety architecture boy children door education educational and scientific education, science and learning emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas features girl group groups people public and municipal school society student teacher woman work and occupations