The Blind Fiddler

The Blind Fiddler is an 1806 genre painting by the Scottish artist David Wilkie.

[1] [2] It was submitted to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition at Somerset House.

Only the second painting Wilkie had publicly displayed, it confirmed his reputation as a rising star.

Today the work is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been gifted to the nation by the art collector Sir George Beaumont in 1826.

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