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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, was published in 1766.12