| Newsmongers | |
| Artist: | David Wilkie |
| Year: | 1821 |
| Type: | Oil on mahogany, genre painting |
| Height Metric: | 43.7 |
| Width Metric: | 36.1 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Tate Britain |
| City: | London |
Newsmongers is an 1821 genre painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie. It portrays a group gathered around a man and woman holding up a newspaper.[1] The group includes a baker carrying a pie and roast joint. [2] The news being read is not specified, but its been speculated that might be news of the Napoleonic Wars or the more recent Trial of Queen Caroline.[3]
The work was commissioned by General Edmund Phipps, the brother of the politician and art collector Lord Mulgrave.[4] It was displayed at the Royal Academy's 1821 Summer Exhibition.[5] It is now in the collection of Tate Britain, having been acquired for the nation via Robert Vernon in 1847.[6]