David Wilkie: The People's Painter
Nicholas Tromans
Abstract
This book is about the artist David Wilkie (1785–1841), the first British painter to become an international celebrity. Based on original research, it explores the ways in which Wilkie's images, so beloved by his contemporaries, engaged with a range of cultural predicaments close to their hearts. In a series of thematic chapters, whose concerns range far beyond the details of Wilkie's own career, the book shows how, through Wilkie's thrillingly original work, British society was able to reimagine its own everyday life, its history, and its multinational (Anglo-Scottish) nature. Other themes co ... More
Keywords: David Wilkie, art, British society, British painter, painting, anatomy, human body, British Romanticism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748625208 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625208.001.0001 |
