Allan Cunningham

The Life of Sir David Wilkie 3 Volume Set: With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1843 three-volume biography of the painter Sir David Wilkie remains an indispensable source for his life and works.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection -
• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 1594
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 97mm
• Gewicht: 1860g
• ISBN-13: 9781108078955
• ISBN-10: 1108078958
• Artikelnr.: 42138089

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Preface
1. Birth and parentage
2. The first impulse for art
3. Returns to cults
4. His first London lodging
5. Kindness of Mr Angerstein
6. Paints 'The Card Players'
7. Wilkie at Southampton
8. Wilkie in Devonshire
9. Wilkie paints 'The Wardrobe Ransacked'
10. Cults
11. Journal of a tour to Paris
12. 'Distraining for Rent'. Volume 2: 1. Receives the freedom of Cupar
2. Exhibits 'The Reading of the Will'
3. Paints 'The Parish Beadle'
4. Death of Mrs Wilkie
5. Rome
6. Rome (cont.)
7. Padua, Parma, and Venice
8. Wilkie tries the waters at Töplitz
9. Public dinner given by the Scottish artists
10. Geneva
11. Wilkie in Spain
12. Madrid and Seville. Volume 3: 1. Letters
2. Letters (cont.)
3. Wilkie completes his picture of 'John Knox preaching'
4. Wilkie in Scotland
5. Remarks on painting
6. Wilkie removes to Kensington
7. Royal Academy exhibition of 1838
8. Wilkie at the Hague, etc.
9. Wilkie at Constantinople, etc.
10. Wilkie at Jaffa and Jerusalem
11. Wilkie at Jerusalem
12. Conclusion
Appendices.