Sir David Wilkie

(1785-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841 NRA: Wilkie Sir David (1785-1841) Knight painter DNB: Wilkie, Sir David (1785-1841), painter of genre, historical subjects, and portraits LBT ID: DaWilki1841 VIAF ID: 32265939 LOC ID: n85342493	B/BAP: 1785-11-18 DIED: 1841-06-01
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Scottish-born artist whose genre-paintings were much admired; he was elected to the Royal Academy in 1811.
REFERENCES TO Sir David Wilkie: Charles Clairmont to William Godwin, 6 May 1808 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Robert Southey to James White, 11 November 1814 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 29 October 1817 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to William Laidlaw, [November 1817] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ n1 Walter Scott to the Duke of Buccleugh, 15 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “The Mohock Magazine” in London Magazine 2 (December 1820) 666-85 Found 1: ¶ n11 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 22 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 23 February 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey, “Memoir: School at Bristol,” 27 May 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 John Gibson Lockhart to William Jerdan, [1829?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 2 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. II.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (August 1832) 129-46 Found 1: ¶ 26 “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Byron” in Monthly Review NS 1 (January 1834) 97-109 Found 1: ¶ 11 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (April 1834) 347-58 Found 1: ¶ 21 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1817 Found 2: ¶ 30 ¶ 31 Chapter IV 1818 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter VIII 1819 Chapter I 1820 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter V 1821 Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter IX 1822-23 Found 1: ¶ 18 Chapter XII 1824 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter V 1826 Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1: ¶ 12 Chapter XII Found 2: ¶ 64 ¶ 65 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 July 1837 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 25 February 1843 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VI” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (August 1847) 461-68 Found 1: ¶ 23 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XIII Ch. XIX. 1814-1815 Ch. XXVIII. 1824-1825 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 10: Robert Burns Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 Ch. 20: Personal Affairs Found 1: ¶ 11 Poems by Jerdan Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. 13: Finance Found 1: ¶ 2 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XI Found 1: ¶ 12 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 10: ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 ¶ 17 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 10 Found 1: ¶ 80 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter XXV Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 22 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IV Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 3 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1834-1837. Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 9 Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 2-6 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXIII. Found 1: ¶ 61 Chap. XXXVI. Found 2: ¶ 27 ¶ n1 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 12: 1821-25 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter 20: 1826-52 Found 12: ¶ 20 ¶ 41 ¶ 42 ¶ 43 ¶ 44 ¶ 45 ¶ 46 ¶ 47 ¶ 48 ¶ 49 ¶ 50 ¶ 51 Chapter 22: 1850-53 Found 1: ¶ 12 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIV: 1837-38