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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:: 28151
Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo
1818-22
Oil on canvas 97 x 158 cm
(38 1/4 x 621/4in)
Wellington Museum Apsley House,London (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 33927
Reading the Will
mk87
1820
Oil on panel
76x115cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Neue Pinakothek
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Painting ID:: 40662
Reading the Will
mk156
1820
Oil on canvas
76x115cm
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Painting ID:: 43923
Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch
1818-22
Oil on canvas,
97 x 158 cm
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Painting ID:: 43926
Josephine and the Fortune-Teller
1837
Oil on canvas,
211 x 158 cm
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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: | Eva Gonzales | Pedro Berruguete | Richard Jennys | Georg Saal | Israel Silvestre |
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