David Wilkie (artist)

David Wilkie RA ( born November 18, 1785 Cults in the Scottish county of Fife, † June 1, 1841 in Malta on a ship ) was a Scottish painter.

Life

At 14 Wilkie came in 1799 as a student at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. With the support of his teachers he was six years later moved to the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Already in the following year he was able to, inter alia, " The Village Politicians " and " The Blind Fiddler " at the Great Exhibition of the Academy successfully participate in his pictures; the latter was purchased by the National Gallery.

1811 he was appointed the Royal Academy of Arts to their member and King George IV appointed his court painter Wilkie 1823.

In order to restore his health, he lived from 1825 to 1828 in Italy and Spain, where he painted a series of scenes from the war on the Iberian Peninsula from 1808 to 1814. It followed on from the style of Hogarth with whom he had been the great diversity, delicacy and precision of observation of the characteristic in nature, has in common also the predominant dramatic of the content in many of his pictures, but is essentially determined by the Dutch genre painters.

The resulting after his return from Spain Pictures are more influenced by Titian and Velazquez. The images from this second period also belong the Lord has gone out (1834 ) and Christopher Columbus (1835 ). In 1830 he was appointed the first court painter. In this capacity, he painted many portraits, including from the royal family. Furthermore, the historical paintings were created: Pope Pius VII at Fontainebleau, the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte the signing of the Concordat denying that Mary Stuart escape from the castle Loch Leven (1837 ), General David Baird, the body of Tippoo Sahib auffindend (1839 ), Paul III. and Benvenuto Cellini.

1840 Wilkie went to the Orient and died while returning on June 1, 1841 in Malta on a ship. Most of his works are in royal privately owned.

Honors

Prior to the National Gallery in London, a statue of Sir David Wilkie was erected, created by Samuel Joseph ( 1791-1850 ).

Works (selection)

  • William Bethune with his wife and daughter (1804 )
  • The village politicians,
  • The Blind Fiddler
  • The Card Players (1808 )
  • The wounded finger,
  • The lease payment,
  • The children on the hunt rats,
  • The gamekeeper,
  • The Village Fair (1812, in the National Gallery ),
  • The blind man's buff, wood, 63 × 95 cm. London, Buckingham Palace.
  • Duncan Gray ( 1812),
  • The Auspfändung (1815 ),
  • The rabbit on the wall ' (1816 )
  • Breakfast (1817 )
  • The small messenger
  • The Walter Scott's Family (1818 )
  • The Penny Wedding (1819 )
  • The reading of the will ( in the Pinakothek at Munich, 1820 )
  • Guess who? (1821 ),
  • Read Chelsea veterans a report on the Battle of Waterloo, 1822, wood, 94 × 154 cm. London, Apsley House.
  • King George IV arrived in Leith (1822 ),
  • The preaching of John Knox at the Cathedral in St. Andrews
  • The beadle of the parish (1824 ) and
  • The Mountain Family ( 1825).
  • The only daughter (1839 )
  • Peep- o'day -boys- cabin,
  • The Saturday evening of the day-laborer,
  • The first earring, 1835, wood, 74 × 60 cm. London, Tate Gallery.
  • Empress Josephine and the Fortune Teller, 1837, canvas, 211 × 157 cm. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland.
  • Mohamed Ali, 1841, canvas, 61 × 51 cm. London, Tate Gallery.
  • Pitlessie Fair, 1804, canvas, 58 × 107 cm. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland.
  • William IV, 1833, canvas, 264 × 173 cm. London, Apsley House.
  • The grace,
  • The death of the red deer,
  • The Irish whiskey distillery ( in the Hermitage at St. Petersburg)
  • William Chalmers -Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and daughter Isabella, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • The Mietpfändung, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • The recommendation letter, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • Samuel in the Temple, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • The Defence of Saragossa, Royal Collection
  • The Cotter 's Saturday Nighter, Glasgow Art Gallery
  • The First Crown Council of Queen Victoria, Royal Collection
  • The seated lady by Constantin Opel, British Museum, London
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