Artist: Walter Dendy Sadler
Date: 1882
Size: 2170 x 1080 cm
Museum: Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This is one of a group of mildly satirical paintings by Sadler showing the domestic life of monks and friars which date from about 1865-90. Sadler depicts Dominican friars entertaining two Franciscans to a meal. Friday in religious life is traditionally a day of fasting, or at least the day in which no meat is eaten. Sadler’s friars are observing the letter of the law, but not its spirit, by settling down to a feast of fish. Sadler said of ‘Friday’: “I can recall no reason why I tried to paint monks, but I do remember that I never had a real monk as a model. I have studied them on the Continent, also at a small monastery in Crawley, Sussex.” Two years before painting
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