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David Wilkie was one of the most successful painters of the Regency period and was greatly encouraged by the Regent. Born in Fife, trained in Edinburgh, Wilkie settled in London in 1805 and began regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy small scale scenes of everyday life. At this time Dutch and Flemish old master paintings were hugely popular and expensive, as is demonstrated by the works ...
David Wilkie. (b Cults, nr. Cupar, Fife, 18 Nov. 1785; d at sea, off Gibraltar, 1 June 1841). Scottish painter, active mainly in London. He is principally famous as the most popular genre painter of his time, but he also produced historical subjects and portraits. Wilkie trained in Edinburgh and then in 1805 moved to London, where he studied ...
David Wilkie. Born in Sri Lanka, where his Scottish parents were stationed at the time, David is the only person to have held British, American, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time. He won 200m Breaststroke bronze for Scotland at the Edinburgh 1970 Commonwealth Games at the age of 16 and announced himself ...
22 de may. de 2024 · David Wilkie, the swimming superstar from Scotland who secured an Olympic gold medal for Great Britain in Montreal in 1976, has sadly passed away at the age of 70. His family confirmed that the cherished athlete, who won the 200m breaststroke in his inspiring career and battled cancer bravely, died peacefully on Wednesday morning.
23 de may. de 2024 · Aveva appena compiuto 70 anni. Il nuoto mondiale piange la scomparsa di uno delle sue stelle più luminose, lo scozzese David Wilkie, è morto all’età di 70 anni dopo una “coraggiosa battaglia contro il cancro”. Nato in Sri Lanka, Wilkie si trasferì in Scozia, patria dei suoi genitori, all’età di 11 anni dove divenne uno dei ...
22 de may. de 2024 · David Wilkie has died at the age of 70 (PA) (PA Archive) David Wilkie summoned one of the all-time great British Olympic performances when he surged to the gold medal in the Montreal pool in 1976 ...
Sir David Wilkie and the Scots School of Painters. Edinburgh, n.d. [1900], pp. 107, 151, as "among the pictures upon which his [Wilkie's] fame most securely rests"; records the price the earl paid for it in 1825 as 350 guineas. Ronald Sutherland Gower. Sir David Wilkie. London, 1902, pp. 93, 130, lists it among pictures that cannot be traced.
