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The Letter of Introduction Painting ID:: 563
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Sir David Wilkie The Letter of Introduction 1813 National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
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The Blind Fiddler Painting ID:: 564
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Sir David Wilkie The Blind Fiddler 1806
Tate Gallery, London
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Reading the Will (mk09) Painting ID:: 21442
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Sir David Wilkie Reading the Will (mk09) 1820
Oil on panel,76 x 115 cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Neue Pinakothek
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The Letter of Introduction (nn03) Painting ID:: 23535
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Sir David Wilkie The Letter of Introduction (nn03) 1813
Oil on panel 61 x 50 cm 24 x 19 3/4 in
National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh
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The Defence of Saragossa (mk25) Painting ID:: 24037
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Sir David Wilkie The Defence of Saragossa (mk25) 1828
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Sir David Wilkie
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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::. | Harald Sohlberg | Abraham Wuchters | Jan Steen | |
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