- Artist
- John Robertson Reid 1851–1926
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 991 × 1822 mm
frame: 1405 × 2230 × 160 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1879
- Reference
- N01600
Catalogue entry
N01600 TOIL AND PLEASURE 1879
Inscr. ‘John R. Reid 79.’ b.l.
Canvas, 39×71 3/4 (99×182).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1879.
Exh: R.A., 1879 (540).
Lit: J. B. Manson, The Tate Gallery, 1929, p.121 and repr. p.122.
Repr: Sir Edward J. Poynter, The National Gallery, III, 1900, p.229.
Painted at Ashington in Sussex.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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