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Biography
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-known painting today is probably The Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Sir David Wilkie The Blind Fiddler
1806 -
Sir David Wilkie The Village Holiday
1809–11 -
Sir David Wilkie His Highness Muhemed Ali, Pacha of Egypt
1841 -
Sir David Wilkie The Peep-o’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland
1835–6, exhibited 1836 -
Sir David Wilkie The First Ear-Ring
1834–5, exhibited 1835 -
Sir David Wilkie The Parish Beadle
1820–3 -
Sir David Wilkie The Bag-Piper
1813, exhibited 1813 -
Sir David Wilkie Miss Julia Emily Gordon
1833
Features
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Art Term
Genres
Genres are types of painting. These were codified in the seventeenth century as (in descending order of importance) history, portrait, …
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Art Term
Genre painting
The term genre painting refers to paintings which depict scenes of everyday life
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Tate Papers
The Roman Campagna Revisited: Art & Environment
Richard Wrigley reconnects the Roman campagna – a landscape endowed with considerable artistic significance – with its troubled history as …
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