Contrary Winds is an 1843 genre painting by the British artist Thomas Webster.Roe p.302 It depicts a scene of idyllic childhood in an English cottage where a children"s game of sailing boats in a washing tub is taking place. An older woman is seated on the left sewing. The painting was displayed at the 1844 exhibition of the British Institution held in Pall Mall. It was acquired by the John Sheepshanks who in 1857 donated it to the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Sheepshanks Gift.
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Bibliography Begiato, Joanne. Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture. Manchester University Press, 2020. Roe, Sonia. Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Public Catalogue Foundation, 2008.