Sir david wilkie biography of christopher

  • Sir David Wilkie RA (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes.
  • Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie painted genre scenes, or events from everyday life.
  • Born in Fife, trained in Edinburgh, Wilkie settled in London in 1805 and began regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy small scale scenes of everyday life.

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    Sir David Wilkie (artist)

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    Wilkie was a Scottish painter in the early 19th century. He painted a variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits (including formal royal portraits), and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. He is known for his genre scenes. He was the Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria.

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    source content Sir David Wilkie (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter". He was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Apart from royal portraits, his best-k

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    David Wilkie (artist)

    Scottish painter (1785–1841)

    Sir David WilkieRA (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish[1] painter, especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter".

    He was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria.[2][3] Apart from royal portraits, his best-known painting today is probably The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House.

    Early life

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    David Wilkie was born in PitlessieFife in Scotland on 18 November 1785. He was the son of the parishminister of Cults, Fife. Caroline Wilkie was a relative.[5] He

  • sir david wilkie biography of christopher

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    Sir David Wilkie, RA (British, 1785-1841)

    Christopher Columbus and Isabella of Spain
    bears inscription to label (on backboard)
    ink, watercolour and pencil
    26 x 20 cm. (10 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

    Footnotes

    PROVENANCE:
    Harriet Gott. Harriet's father was a noted patron of Wilkie.

    Although the oil painting for which this was a sketch was not known to have been completed, a similar work entitled Christopher Columbus in the Convent of La Rabida Explaining his Intended Voyage was painted in 1834.

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