mrinalkantimajumder:SIR DAVID WILKIE On this day of 18th November, Sir David Wilkie
mrinalkantimajumder:SIR DAVID WILKIE On this day of 18th November, Sir David Wilkie (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was born in Pitlessie Fife in Scotland. He developed a love for art at an early age. After he had attended school at Pitlessie, Kingskettle, and Cupar, his father reluctantly agreed to his becoming a painter. Wilkie was admitted to the Trustees’ Academy in Edinburgh, and studied under John Graham, Sir William Allan, and John Burnet.Wilkie was especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits, of 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 At the early stages, the painting which needs mention was Ceres in Search of Proserpine, and Diana and Calisto, while his pencil portraits of himself and his mother are now in the possession of the Duke of Buccleuch.Wilke’s other notable paintings are The Pitlessie Fair which includes about 140 figures, Bounty-Money, or the Village Recruit, Village Politicians, The Blind Fiddler, Alfred in the Neatherd’s Cottage, Card-Players The Rent Day, Ale-House Door or The Village Festival, Blind Man’s Buff. Letter of Introduction, Distraining for Rent, Reading the Will, The Abbotsford Family, The Pifferari, Princess Doria, The Maid of Saragossa, The Spanish Podado, Guerilla Council of War, The Guerilla Taking Leave of his Family, the Guerilla’s Return to his Family, Two Spanish Monks of Toledo, Columbus in the Convent, Napoleon, Pius VII, Empress Josephine, and the Fortune-Teller, Queen Victoria Presiding at her First Council, and General Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tippoo Sahib In 1836 he received the honour of Knighthood. -- source link
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