Painting and Sculpture

Choosing the Wedding Gown

Choosing the Wedding Gown is an oil on panel genre painting by the Irish artist William Mulready, from 1845. It illustrates a scene from Oliver Goldsmith's novel The Vicar of Wakefield. Mulready originally created the image as a frontispiece for an 1843 edition of the novel. Such pictures based on popular literature were popular in the early Victorian era. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1846 at the National Gallery where it was considered one of the major highlights. Today it is in the Victoria and Albert Museum having been donated as part of the Sheepshanks Gift by the art collector John Sheepshanks in 1857.

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• ▸Frederick William Hayes
• ▸Ashwin Vasan
• ▸High Street, Oxford (painting)

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