Sir David Wilkie
(1785-1841), PainterSitter in 21 portraits
Artist associated with 17 portraits
A pioneering genre painter and an original portraitist, Wilkie's scenes of Scottish peasant life won him much attention when he moved from Edinburgh to London in 1805. He was the friend of B.R. Haydon with whom he visited France 1814. Patronised by the Prince Regent he was made painter to King William IV who knighted him in 1836. His death on his way home from India in 1841 was commemorated by Turner's painting, Burial at Sea.
by Sir David Wilkie
oil on panel, 1813
NPG 53
by Sir David Wilkie
black and white chalk, 1815
NPG 1505
by Sir David Wilkie
oil on panel, 1818
NPG 775
Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
by Sir David Wilkie
oil on panel, circa 1822-1823
On display in Room 15 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2936
Unknown man, formerly known as James Northcote
attributed to Sir David Wilkie
oil on canvas laid on panel, circa 1825
NPG 2938
by Sir David Wilkie
watercolour, circa 1834
NPG 1825
by Sir David Wilkie
oil on canvas, 1837
On display at Kensington Palace, London
NPG 5917
by Sir David Wilkie
pen and ink and watercolour, circa 1840
NPG 1297
by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after Sir David Wilkie
etching, (1815)
NPG D22577
'The Abbotsford family' (Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt)
by William Greatbach, published by George Virtue, after Sir David Wilkie
line engraving, (1817)
NPG D40615
Louis Jacques ('The Wonderful French Giant')
by Richard Dighton, published by George Humphrey, reissued by Sir David Wilkie
hand-coloured etching, published 15 January 1822
NPG D47089
by Samuel Cousins, after Sir David Wilkie
stipple engraving, (1824)
NPG D42140
by Edward A. Smith, published by Moon, Boys & Graves, after Sir David Wilkie
line engraving, published 4 June 1831 (1824)
NPG D40614
'The Abbotsford family' (Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt)
by Robert Graves, published by Hodgson & Graves, after Sir David Wilkie
line engraving, published 1 June 1837 (1817)
NPG D40616
by Peter Lightfoot, after Sir David Wilkie
line engraving, 1843
NPG D40617
by Sir George Scharf, after Sir David Wilkie
pencil on tracing paper, 1859
NPG D151
General Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of the Sultaun Tippoo Saib
by John Burnet, published by Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt, after Sir David Wilkie
mezzotint, published 1 May 1843
NPG D49393
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