1858-1903   Related Paintings of Margaret Isabel Dicksee :. | Portrait of Alexander von Benckendorff | wreckerscoast of northumberland | Bell tower | Flight into Egypt | Hertug Frederik Christian II |
Related Artists:
Karl Pavlovic Brullow
1799-1852
Carel Van der Pluym
1625-1672
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.