'Reading the Will', c1820. The numerous heirs gather round the lawyer seated at the table, on which are coins, bottles and glasses. One stands close with an ear trumpet. The belongings of the recently deceased spill out of a trunk in the foreground. The work is said to have been inspired by the novel "Guy Mannering" by Sir Walter Scott. Engraving after the painting in the Neue Pinakothek Munich, Germany.
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