Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-robertson-reid-442" aria-label="More by John Robertson Reid" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Robertson Reid</a>
Toil and Pleasure
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1879
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
Ashington
basket
boy
child labour
children
class
clothing and personal items
England
England, South East
England, Southern
farm labourer
field
food and drink
girl
group
groups
harvesting
health and welfare
hunting
landscape
leisure and pastimes
looking / watching
man
objects
people
places
recreational activities
smock
social comment
society
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, West
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
vegetable - non-specific
vessels and containers
woman
work and occupations
<p><span>Toil and Pleasure</span> shows a rural community that is divided by wealth and social class. This inequality is demonstrated between those who work on the land and those that use it for leisure. In the foreground, workers are shown harvesting turnips. However, they are presented in an idealised way. Their clothes appear untouched by their hard work. In the background, members of a hunt, a popular leisure activity among the wealthy upper classes at the time, ride across the field.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2019</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
29 August 2001 – 25 July 2005
2005-07-25
29 August 2001
2001-08-29
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-08-29
Art and Victorian Society
Collection based display
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
18 March 2017 – 18 June 2017
2017-06-18
18 March 2017 – 18 June 2017
2017-06-18
2017-03-18
Compton Verney (Compton Verney, UK)
2017-03-18
Creating the Countryside: Thomas Gainsborough to Today
Loan-out
11 November 2017 – 20 May 2018
2018-05-20
11 November 2017 – 4 February 2018
2018-02-04
2017-11-11
Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, USA)
http://www.worcesterart.org
2 March 2018 – 20 May 2018
2018-05-20
2018-03-02
Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, USA)
2017-11-11
Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England
Loan-out
Toil and Pleasure
support: 991 × 1822 mm
frame: 1405 × 2230 × 160 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1879
<div class="text">
<p>
<i>Toil and Pleasure</i> shows a rural community that is divided by wealth and social class. This inequality is demonstrated between those who work on the land <br/>and those that use it for leisure. In the foreground, workers are shown harvesting turnips. However, they are presented in an idealised way. Their clothes appear untouched by their hard work. In the background, members of a hunt, a popular leisure activity among the wealthy upper classes at the time, ride across the field.</p>
</div>

Display caption
2019-04-30T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N01600</b> TOIL AND PLEASURE 1879</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Inscr. ‘John R. Reid 79.’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 39×71 3/4 (99×182).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1879.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1879 (540).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> J. B. Manson, <i>The Tate Gallery</i>, 1929, p.121 and repr. p.122.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Sir Edward J. Poynter, <i>The National Gallery</i>, III, 1900, p.229.</p>
<p>Painted at Ashington in Sussex.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing Ashington basket boy child labour children class clothing and personal items England England, South East England, Southern farm labourer field food and drink girl group groups harvesting health and welfare hunting landscape leisure and pastimes looking / watching man objects people places recreational activities smock social comment society Sussex - non-specific Sussex, West tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions vegetable - non-specific vessels and containers woman work and occupations