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Sir David Wilkie

Sir David Wilkie Reading the Will oil painting on canvas
Reading the Will
Painting ID::  40662
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Sir David Wilkie Reading the Will 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.
  Reading the Will
  mk156 1820 Oil on canvas 76x115cm

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