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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
David Wilkie
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

David Wilkie

Cults, 1785 - 1841, Malta
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BiographyWilkie achieved international recognition for his highly original paintings of events and episodes from contemporary life. His skills as a narrator were evident in the facial expressions and poses of his characters, and in the informative detail he included. He was born in Fife, the son of a rural minister and began his formal artistic training at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh when he was fifteen. He then moved to London in 1805 and became a full member of the Royal Academy in 1811. He was appointed Painter to the King in 1830 and knighted in 1836.

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