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Mr. Quick as Vellum in Addison's Drummer

Samuel De Wilde · 1792

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Artist

Samuel De Wilde

Date

1792

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

36.8 × 27.9 cm (14 1/2 × 11 in.); Framed: 46.4 × 38.1 × 6 cm (18 1/4 × 15 × 2 3/8 in.)

Place

England

Period

18th century

Themes

Portraits

Main colour

Brown · lightness 28, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Kay Krehbiel, Lisbeth Stiffel, Rosemarie and Dean L. Buntrock, Richard and Nancy Spain, and The David Horn Family. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules