Young Anglers
Artist	William Collins
Year	1820
Type	Oil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions	106.4 cm × 93.7 cm (41.9 in × 36.9 in)
Location	Royal Academy of Arts, London

Young Anglers is an 1820 oil painting by the British artist William Collins.^[1][2] It features a depiction in rural England, where two boys on the bank of a river in a village are happily fishing. Such nostalgic, Romantic views were common in the work of Collins.^[3]

When Collins was elected as a full member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1820 he presented this as his diploma work.^[4] It remains in the collection of the Royal Academy today.^[5] The theme of boys fishing or collecting shrimps or prawns recurred in his work such as Shrimp Boys at Cromer or Prawn Fishing. The same year a mezzotint Boys Fishing was produced by the engraver Francis James Collins was produced based on Collins' work.^[6]

References

Bibliography

• Grant, Maurice Harold. A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters. University of California, 1926.
• Solkin, David H. Painting Out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-century Britain. Yale University Press, 2009.
• Wood, Christopher Newall, Christopher & Richardson, Margaret. Victorian Painters. ACC Art Books, 1995.

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