John Robertson Reid

Toil and Pleasure shows a rural community that is divided by wealth and social class. This inequality is demonstrated between those who work on the land
and those that use it for leisure. In the foreground, workers are shown harvesting turnips. However, they are presented in an idealised way. Their clothes appear untouched by their hard work. In the background, members of a hunt, a popular leisure activity among the wealthy upper classes at the time, ride across the field.