Oil paint on mahogany
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Robert Vernon
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Enthusiast Gouty Angler
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
actions: postures and motions
adults
agriculture, gardening & fishing
basket
book - non-specific
chair
diseases and conditions
domestic
fireplace
fishing
fishing rod
furnishings
gout
heating and lighting
interiors
leisure and pastimes
living room
man, old
medical
medicine
objects
people
reading, writing, printed matter
sitting
sport
table
tub
vessels and containers
<p>Comic subjects formed a very distinctive category within nineteenth-century genre painting. Many such pictures tended to depict instances of everyday domestic discomfort or, like this one, eccentricity and 'ruling passions'. The first owner of this picture, Robert Vernon, was something of a hypochondriac. He made his fortune in the 1830s by hiring horses to the gentry.Lane had a sharp eye for domestic whimsy. Here, a gout-stricken angler is confined to his room. He still pursues his hobby against all the odds. His medicines are on the table beside him while his 'bible', Isaac Walton's 'The Compleat Angler', lies open on the floor.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
Enthusiast (‘The Gouty Angler’)
support: 406 × 559 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
<p>Comic subjects formed a very distinctive category within nineteenth-century <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/genre-painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Genre Painting'"><span>genre painting</span></a>. Many such pictures tended to depict instances of everyday domestic discomfort or, like this one, eccentricity and 'ruling passions'. The first owner of this picture, Robert Vernon, was something of a hypochondriac. He made his fortune in the 1830s by hiring horses to the gentry.<br/>Lane had a sharp eye for domestic whimsy. Here, a gout-stricken angler is confined to his room. He still pursues his hobby against all the odds. His medicines are on the table beside him while his 'bible', Isaac Walton's 'The Compleat Angler', lies open on the floor.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults agriculture, gardening & fishing basket book - non-specific chair diseases and conditions domestic fireplace fishing fishing rod furnishings gout heating and lighting interiors leisure and pastimes living room man, old medical medicine objects people reading, writing, printed matter sitting sport table tub vessels and containers