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Study for Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of SultanTippoo Sahib

This study relates to the painting in the NGS 'General Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Sultan Tippoo Sahib after having Captured Seringapatam,…

Stag hunt in the Highlands

The present work was accessioned into the RSA Collections as being the work of Thomas Duncan RSA although no known finished painting with such a…

The Parliament Close & Public Characters of Edinburgh, Fifty years Since

The plate is inscrinbed beneath the image; "The Original Picture in the possession of Robert Bryson FRSE, The Figures painted by/ Sir David Wilkie,…

Study for The Blind Fiddler

Study for the Cut Finger

Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo

Original painting by Wilkie. The painting was completed and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822 where it was so popular that a barrier had to be…

The First Ear-Ring

A contemporary advertisement taken out by Moon in the weekly publication The Torch, on Saturday 19 May 1838 lists a number of “Splendid Prints in…

The Pedlar

Wilkie exhibited "The Pedlar," (2 foot 11 inches x 2 foot seven inches, at the British Institution in 1817 (cat.19). Wilkie's original oil is now in…

Alfred in the Neatherd's Cave

Wilkie was a great influence on many of the early members of the RSA and was elected an HRSA in 1832. His original oil painting appears to have been…

The Parish Beadle

Wilkie was a great influence on many of the early members of the RSA and was elected an HRSA in 1832. His original oil painting painted between 1820…

study for 'Knox Dispensing the Sacrament at Calder House'

study for 'Knox Dispensing the Sacrament at Calder House'