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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... MEMOIR OF SIR DAVID WILKIE. "For, don't you mark, we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted--better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that--God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out." RoBEBT Bbowning. 'HE canons of artistic criticism are unfortunately as yet too uncertain to permit us, in estimating the worth and scope of an artist's work, to dispense with any aid we may be able to derive from an acquaintance with the outer circumstances of his life, and the individual peculiarities of his character; for although on the one hand, the study of his work will nearly always reveal to us something of the personal nature of the artist, yet on the other, a knowledge of his life will often give us a clearer insight than we could otherwise attain into the real meaning of his teaching, and may perhaps lead us to feel a deeper sympathy with its truth. This is peculiarly the case with the life and work of David Wilkie. His pictures indeed tell us much of the mind of the painter, but the upright and simple life of the man leads us also to a better understanding of his art. The family of Wilkie, as its illustrious descendant tells us, in an unfinished autobiography, was an old one in Mid-Lothian, and had held the small estate of Ratho-Byres for four hundred years. By the imprudence of some members of the family, this property, however, passed to a younger branch, and John Wilkie, Sir David's grandfather, held it only as its tenant and cultivator. Allan Cunningham, in his admirable "Life of Sir David Wilkie," tells us that "the birthplace of his fathers was dear to Wilkie's heart," and that when his fame...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230278308
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230278303
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr

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