Skip navigation
Tate Logo
Shop
Become a Member

Main menu

  • Art and artists
    • Our collection
      Artists
      Artworks
      Art by theme
      Explore
      Videos
      Podcasts
      Short articles
      In depth
      Art Terms
      Tate Research
      Student resources
      Make art
      Create like an artist
      Kids art activities
      Tate Draw game
  • What's on
  • Plan your visit

Main menu additional

  • Shop
  • Become a Member
Expand
  • Art and Artists
  • Artworks
  • The Preaching of Knox before the Lords of the Congregation, 10th June 1559

Sir David Wilkie

The Preaching of Knox before the Lords of the Congregation, 10th June 1559

1832

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

Not on display

Artist
Sir David Wilkie 1785–1841
Medium
Oil paint on wood
Dimensions
Support: 1226 × 1651 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Purchased 1871
Reference
N00894

Explore

  • history(5,776)
    • religious(19)
      • Scottish Reformation, late 16th c.(2)
  • interiors(2,776)
    • religious(790)
      • church(561)
  • objects(23,571)
    • reading, writing, printed matter(5,159)
      • book - non-specific(1,954)
    • religious and ceremonial(1,733)
      • mitre(12)
      • pulpit(27)
    • scientific and measuring(791)
      • hour glass(13)
  • people(22,072)
    • actions: processes and functions(2,161)
      • looking / watching(581)
    • adults(20,120)
      • man(10,453)
      • woman(9,110)
    • groups(5,156)
      • congregation(45)
    • named individuals(12,887)
      • Knox, John(4)
  • work and occupations(5,453)
    • public service(872)
      • clerk(13)
    • religious(408)
      • bishop(32)
      • clergyman(139)
      • preaching(22)
    • royalty and social rank(345)
      • aristocrat(1,357)

You might like

Left Right
  • Sir David Wilkie Head and Shoulders of a Woman

    date not known
    View by appointment
  • Sir David Wilkie The Village Holiday

    1809–11
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
  • Sir David Wilkie Thomas Daniell, R.A.

    1838
  • Sir David Wilkie The Parish Beadle

    1820–3
  • Sir David Wilkie The First Ear-Ring

    1834–5, exhibited 1835
  • Sir David Wilkie The Bag-Piper

    1813, exhibited 1813
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
  • Sir David Wilkie A Woody Landscape

    1822
  • Sir David Wilkie Newsmongers

    1821, exhibited 1821
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
  • Sir David Wilkie The Peep-o’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland

    1835–6, exhibited 1836
  • Sir David Wilkie Study for ‘Blind Man’s Buff’

    1811
  • Sir David Wilkie Miss Julia Emily Gordon

    1833
  • Sir David Wilkie Study for a Portrait of William IV and Queen Adelaide

    c.1832–4
    View by appointment
  • Sir David Wilkie A Picnic

    ?1822
  • Sir David Wilkie Study of a Head for ‘The Rabbit on the Wall’

    c.1815
  • Sir David Wilkie His Highness Muhemed Ali, Pacha of Egypt

    1841
Close

Join in

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
Sign up to emails

Sign up to emails

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Tate’s privacy policy

About

  • About us
  • Our collection
  • Terms and copyright
  • Governance
  • Picture library
  • ARTIST ROOMS
  • Tate Kids

Support

  • Tate Collective
  • Members
  • Patrons
  • Donate
  • Corporate
  • My account
  • Press
  • Jobs
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Contact