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Sir David Wilkie Sotiri, Dragoman of Mr Colquhoun oil painting on canvas
Sotiri, Dragoman of Mr Colquhoun
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Sir David Wilkie Sotiri, Dragoman of Mr Colquhoun oil painting on canvas



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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.
  Sotiri, Dragoman of Mr Colquhoun
  1840 Watercolour, gouache and oil over pencil, 475 x 328 mm

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