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Short biography of the Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie. |
The Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie born in 1785, Cults Manse, Scotland. He went to Edinburgh in 1799 to studied at the Trustees Academy there. He was influenced by the Scottish artists David Allan and Alexander Carse. In 1804 Wilkie returned home. After 1806 he moved to London and settled there for studied at the Royal Academy. Between 1814 - 1821 he traveled to Belgium, the Netherlands and Paris to studied the Art works of Titian, Rembrandt and Rubens. David Wilkie spent in the 1820's his life in Austria, Spain, Germany and Italy. Also he traveled to Palestine, Egypt and Syria, ca, the 1840's. He was a honest genre and portrait painter. The Scottish painter David Wilkie died near Malta when he returned from the Middle East, 1841. The painter was buried on the sea. |
The Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie. |
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