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Sir David Wilkie 1785-1841
British Sir David Wilkie Galleries
Wilkie may have inherited his rectitude and tenacity, even his nervous inhibitions, from his father, the minister of his native parish. Though little responsive to schooling, he showed an early inclination towards mimicry that expressed itself in drawings, chiefly of human activity. In these he was influenced by a copy of Allan Ramsay pastoral comedy in verse, the Gentle Shepherd (1725), illustrated by David Allan in 1788. One of the few surviving examples of his early drawings represents a scene from it (c. 1797; Kirkcaldy, Fife, Mus. A.G.). Wilkie cherished the demotic spirit of this book and its illustrations throughout his life.
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Painting ID:: 24046 THe First Council of Queen Victoria (mk25)
1838
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Painting ID:: 24280 The Penny Wedding (mk25)
1818
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Painting ID:: 27884 Blind Man's Buff
1812
Oil on canvas 63.2 x 91.8 cm
(25 x 36 1/8 in)
Royal Collection (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 27886 William IV
1833
Oil on canvas 267 x 173 cm(105 1/8 x 68 1/8 in)Wellington Museum,Apsley House London (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 28150 The Refusal from Burns's Song of 'Duncan Gray'
1814
Oil on wood 62.8 x 51.7 cm
(24 3/4 x 20 3/8 in)
Victoria and Albort Museum London (mk63)
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Sir David Wilkie
1785-1841
British Sir David Wilkie Galleries
Wilkie may have inherited his rectitude and tenacity, even his nervous inhibitions, from his father, the minister of his native parish. Though little responsive to schooling, he showed an early inclination towards mimicry that expressed itself in drawings, chiefly of human activity. In these he was influenced by a copy of Allan Ramsay pastoral comedy in verse, the Gentle Shepherd (1725), illustrated by David Allan in 1788. One of the few surviving examples of his early drawings represents a scene from it (c. 1797; Kirkcaldy, Fife, Mus. A.G.). Wilkie cherished the demotic spirit of this book and its illustrations throughout his life.
. Related Artists to Sir David Wilkie: | Salomon Gessner | Jean Barbault | LIGOZZI, Jacopo | Douglas Cowper | Willem van Nieulandt |
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