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Distraining for Rent

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Distraining for Rent
ArtistDavid Wilkie
Year1815
TypeOil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions81.3 cm × 123 cm (32.0 in × 48 in)
LocationScottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Distraining for Rent is an 1815 genre painting by the British artist David Wilkie. It shows a tenant farmer and his family facing eviction having fallen behind in their rent payments. It features the process of distraint from which it takes its title as goods are seized by bailiffs.[1]

The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1815 and was purchased by the directors of the British Institution the same year.[2] It is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, having been purchased in 1975.[3]

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  • Morrison, John. Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900. Taylor and Francisz 2017.
  • Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
  • Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland.