- Artist
- Walter Dendy Sadler 1854–1923
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 864 × 1410 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
- Reference
- N01555
Catalogue entry
N01555 THURSDAY 1880
Inscr. ‘W Dendy Sadler. 80.’ b.r.
Canvas, 34×55 1/2 (86·5×141).
Tate Gift 1894.
Exh: R.A., 1880 (590); Opening of the New Art Gallery, Blackburn, August–October 1894 (109).
Lit: F. G. Stephens, ‘Walter Dendy Sadler’ in Art Journal, 1895, p.197; E. T. Cook, A Popular Handbook to the Tate Gallery, 1898, p.179.
Repr: Academy Notes, 1880, p.55 (woodcut); Art Journal, 1888, p.212 (etching by F. Slocombe).
The picture shows a group of Capuchin friars fishing. This was one of the artist's favourite pastimes and he painted several pictures on this theme. The following year he exhibited ‘It is always the largest Fish that's lost’ and in 1882 the companion to N01555, ‘Friday’, now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. This shows Dominican monks in their refectory eating a rich variety of sea food. According to E. T. Cook (loc. cit) N01555 was one of the three first pictures bought by Henry Tate and was the first monk picture painted by Sadler in England. ‘The background (he says) was made up from studies I had painted in Germany with the help of some foreground studies made in the previous summer at Hurley on the Thames.’ Actually, the first picture of monks fishing was ‘Steady Brother, Steady’, exhibited at the R.A. in 1875, but this may have been painted in Germany. In the Short Guide to the Tate Gallery published by the Sunday Times 1897, N01555 is called ‘Tomorrow will be Friday’, and it is still sometimes known by that title.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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