Slender, with the Assistance of Shallow, Courting Anne Page, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene iv

Charles Robert Leslie, 1794–1859, British, Slender, with the Assistance of Shallow, Courting Anne Page, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene iv, 1825

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Creator:: Charles Robert Leslie, 1794–1859
Title:: Slender, with the Assistance of Shallow, Courting Anne Page, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act III, Scene iv
Former Title(s):: Slender, with the assistance of Shallow, courting Anne Page, from 'The Merry Wives Of Windsor'
Slender, with the assistance of Shallow, courting Anne Page Shallow.-- "Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you." Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii. Scene 4. [1825, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches (67.6 x 80 cm), Frame: 34 x 39 x 2 3/8 inches (86.4 x 99.1 x 6 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.13.2
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B1981.13.2FR
Subject Terms:: chair | costume | courting | daughter | flower (plant) | interior | light | literary theme | love | lute | mandolin | men | music | stool | table | The Merry Wives of Windsor, play by William Shakespeare | window | woman
Associated People:: Mistress Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Shallow (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Slender (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Access:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:512
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Charles Robert Leslie was born in London to American parents and spent most of his formative years in Philadelphia. He moved back to London in 1811 to pursue a career as a painter, training with the aging Benjamin West. Leslie soon made a reputation for his historical and genre pictures, his theatrical subjects becoming especially popular. This example represents a scene from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, wherein Robert Shallow, a country justice, nudges his reluctant kinsman, Slender, toward marriage with Anne Page because she stands to inherit her father’s immense fortune. Although Shallow proclaims his cousin’s affection, Slender’s expression belies these assertions. Anne, who loves another, conveys her corresponding lack of enthusiasm by focusing on the flower in her hand rather than her purported suitor.

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Patrick Noon, Crossing the Channel : British and French painting in the age of romanticism, Tate Publishing, London, p. 136, no. 64, ND467.5.R6 N66 2003 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 16, no. 37, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

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