At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, a new generation of painters
led by the precociously talented David Wilkie took London's art
world by storm. Their novel approach to the depiction of everyday
life marked the beginning a trajectory that links the art of the
Age of Revolution with the postmodern culture of today. What
emerged from the imagery of Wilkie and other early 19th-century
British genre painters-among them William Mulready, Edward Bird,
and the controversial watercolorist Thomas Heaphy-was a sense that
common people were increasingly bound up with the exceptional
events of history, that traditional boundaries between country and
city were melting away, and that a more regularized and dynamic
present was everywhere encroaching upon the customary patterns of
the past. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
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