Distraining for Rent
Artist
George John Pinwell
(High Wycombe, England, 1842 - 1875)
Mediumpencil and watercolour on paper
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsSight Size: Height: 10.7 cm, Width: 16.5 cm
Frame: Height: 26 cm, Width: 32 cm
Frame: Height: 26 cm, Width: 32 cm
AcquisitionAlexander Webster Bequest, 1921.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG004335
About MeThe rural poor were a favoured subject of Pinwell and he tended not to idealise them but show his peasants as unhealthy, pallid and ill-fed. On the right of this scene, the well dressed distraining agent (or baillif) is preparing to seize goods from an impoverished family. Pinwell has painted the children only sketchily, yet the slumped figure of the girl on her mother's lap, gazing into the empty grate, evinces the hopelessness of their situation.
John Phillip
c. 1870
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1859
Aberdeen Art Gallery
John Phillip
