Newsmongers

Newsmongers is an 1821 genre painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie.

It portrays a group gathered around a man and woman holding up a newspaper.

[1] The group includes a baker carrying a pie and roast joint.

[3] The work was commissioned by General Edmund Phipps, the brother of the politician and art collector Lord Mulgrave.

[5] It is now in the collection of Tate Britain, having been acquired for the nation via Robert Vernon in 1847.