Royal Academy of Arts Collections

Sir David Wilkie, R.A.

Preferred Media: Painting , printmaking and etching

Born: 18 November 1785 in Cults, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Died: 1 June 1841

Nationality: British

Royal Academy student from: 28 November 1805 to:

Elected A.R.A: 06 Nov 1809

Elected R.A: 11 Feb 1811

Works by


Sketch of Michelangelo's Taddei tondo c. 1823? David Wilkie


Study for 'Reading the News' c. 1821 David Wilkie


A man leaning on the... by 1841 David Wilkie


Two men and a child... ca. 1818-22 David Wilkie


Study of a man with... by 1841 David Wilkie


A standing woman by 1841 David Wilkie


Study for 'The Cotter's Saturday... ca. 1837 David Wilkie


Study for 'The Pedlar' by 1817 David Wilkie


Boys playing by a fountain by 1841 David Wilkie


Study for a version of... ca. 1821 David Wilkie


Guess My Name ca. 1821 David Wilkie


Study of figures in an... by 1841 David Wilkie


A Christening by 1841 David Wilkie


Man carrying a barrel probably ca. 1818 David Wilkie


Study for 'The Penny Wedding' ca. 1818 David Wilkie


Study for 'The Breakfast' ca. 1817 David Wilkie


Boys digging for Rats 1812 David Wilkie

Works after


Mrs Moore, wife of the... 1841 David Wilkie


The Dragoman of Mr Allison... 1840 David Wilkie


The Daughter of Admiral Walker 1840 David Wilkie


Admiral Walker, Commander of the... 27 November 1840 David Wilkie


Mr. Cartwright, [British] Consul at... 1 November 1840 David Wilkie


Madame Josephina in Turkish dress 1840 David Wilkie


Camels sketched at Smyrna 1840 David Wilkie


The Dragoman of Mr Moore,... 1841 David Wilkie


Portrait of Mehemet Ali, Pasha... 1841 David Wilkie

Works associated with


Bust of Sir David Wilkie,... 1833 George Rennie


Portrait of Sir David Wilkie... James Roberts?

Books

Raimbach, Abraham Memoirs And Recollections Of The Late Abraham Raimbach, Esq. Engraver, Corresponding Member Of The Institute Of France, And Honorary Member Of The Academies Of Arts Of St. Petersburgh, Geneva, And Amsterdam. Including A Memoir Of Sir David Wilkie, R.A. Edited By M.T.S. Raimbach, M.A. [Epigraph] - - London: 1843. [Not Published.]
07/2571

Burnet, John Practical Essays On Various Branches Of The Fine Arts. To Which Is Added, A Critical Inquiry Into The Principles And Practice Of The Late Sir David Wilkie. By John Burnet, F.R.S. Author Of "Practical Hints On Painting." - London: [1848]
06/2389

Cunningham, Allan The Life Of Sir David Wilkie; With His Journals, Tours, And Critical Remarks On Works Of Art; And A Selection From His Corespondence. By Allan Cunningham. In Three Volumes. Vol. I. (-III.) - London: 1843.
05/3993

Pilkington, Matthew A General Dictionary Of Painters; Containing Memoirs Of The Lives And Works Of The Most Eminent Professors of the Art of Painting. From Its Revival By Cimabue, In The Year 1250, To The Present Time. By Matthew Pilkington, A.M. A New Edition, Corrected And Revised, With An Introduction, Historical And Critical, And Twenty-Six New Lives Of Artists Of The British School, By Allan Cunningham. - London: 1840.
05/3416

Haydon, Benjamin Robert Lectures On Painting And Design: Origin Of The Art - Anatomy The Basis Of Drawing - The Skeleton - The Muscles Of Man And Quadruped - Standard Figures - Composition - Colour - Ancients And Moderns - Invention. By B.R. Haydon, Historical Painter. With Designs Drawn By Himself On The Wood, And Engraved By Edward Evans. - London: 1844. (-1846.)
05/2353

The Royal Gallery Of British Art. - London: [ca. 1851?]
05/818

The Royal Gallery Of British Art. - London: [ca. 1851?]
05/806

Wilkie, David, R.A. Sir David Wilkie's Sketches In Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841. Drawn on Stone by Joseph Nash. - [London] : Feby. 1st. 1843
05/51

Archives

WA/5 Commonplace book containing conversations with James Northcote 1813-1821 Item

WA/2 Diary in printed "Student's Journal" 25 Sep 1821 - 24 Sep 1822 Item

HU/7/28 Ozias Humphry, to James White, Exeter 9 Nov 1808 Item

HU/7/3 [draft] Ozias Humphry, to James White, Exeter [4 Jan 1809?] Item

AND/24/195 Printed circular [21 Apr 1842] Item

AND/24/193 Newspaper cutting 15 Jun 1842 Item

AND/24/191 Newspaper cutting Jun 1842 Item

AND/24/188 Newspaper cutting [1842] Item

AND/24/184 Title page of a sale catalogue 25 Apr 1842 Item

AND/24/92 Newspaper cutting and sale catalogue cutting 1842 Item

AND/23/39 Sales catalogue cutting 1872 Item

AND/22/273 Newspaper cuttings [1836] Item

AND/22/267 Newspaper cuttings [1836] Item

AND/22/171 Newspaper cuttings [1835] Item

AND/21/234 Newspaper cuttings [1832] Item

AND/21/134 Newspaper cuttings [1831] Item

AND/21/34 [copy] David Wilkie, Kensington, to Miss Fletcher 30 Oct 1830 Item

AND/20/147 [copy] David Wilkie, to William Collins [9 May 1828] Item

GI/1/355 David Wilkie, Kensington, London, to John Gibson 16 Mar 1840 Item

AND/19/119 Newspaper cuttings 1825 Item

AND/19/117 Sales catalogue cutting [c.1860] Item

AND/18/197 Edward Bell's critiqque of exhibit #135, iThe Parish Beadle/i, by Sir David Wilkie 1823 Item

GI/1/70 Harriet Cheney, 43 Upper Seymour Street. London, to [John] Gibson 16 Jun 1829 Item

AND/16/93 [copy] David Wilkie, Kensington, to Benjamin West 17 Jul 1816 Item

AND/15/128 Fragment of a Sale Catalogue [c.1860] Item

AND/14/182 David Wilkie, Manor Terrace, to Mr. Burnet 1 Aug 1811 Item

AND/14/89 Anderdon's notes on David Wilkie [c.1870] Item

AND/13/238 Newspaper cutting [1808] Item

AND/13/136 Note on Sir David Wilkie, by Edward Bell [c.1840] Item

AND/13/135 Newspaper cutting, an incomplete critique of the 1807 Academy exhibition 1807 Item

AND/13/31 [copy] Press cutting [1806] Item

JU/10/229 John Burnet, No. 1 Clover Hill, Ramsgate, to Mr Harrison, at Boydell & Co's. 25-27 Jul 1852 Item

JU/9/57 B. R. Haydon, London to Lieut Higginson RN 21 Feb 1845 Item

JU/8/55 David Wilkie, Kensington [to William Upcott] 27 Dec 1844 Item

LAW/5/357 David Wilkie, 7 Terrace, Kensington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 18 Aug 1829 Item

LAW/5/353 T[homas] L[awrence], to David Wilkie, Kensington [Aug 1829] Item

LAW/5/326 David Wilkie, 7 Terrace, Kensington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 3 May 1829 Item

LAW/5/298 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to David Wilkie 29 Jan 1829 Item

LAW/5/282 David Wilkie, 7 Terrace, Kensington, to Sir Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, Royal Academy, Somerset House 29 Nov 1829 Item

LAW/5/278 Thos. Lawrence, to [David Wilkie] 9 Dec 1828 Item

LAW/5/210 David Wilkie, Madrid, to Sir Thomas 4 Feb 1828 Item

LAW/5/189 David Wilkie, Madrid, to Sir Thomas Lawrence, Russell Square, London 12 Nov 1827 Item

LAW/5/187 David Wilkie, Madrid, to Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, London 12 Nov 1827 Item

LAW/5/186 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to David Wilkie, Madrid 10 Jan 1828 Item

LAW/5/185 Thos. Lawrence, to David Wilkie, Madrid [5 Dec 1827] Item

LAW/5/158 David Wilkie, to Sir Thomas Lawrence [7 May 1827] Item

LAW/5/77 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to [?David Wilkie] [c.1814] Item

LAW/5/74 Brook Taylor, Munich, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 21 Aug 1826 Item

LAW/4/379 Henry Thomson, 15 Newman Street, to Sir Thomas Lawrence, Hotel de Londres, Place Vendome, Paris 1 Oct 1825 Item

LAW/4/378 David Wilkie, Vevey, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 28 Sep 1825 Item

LAW/4/354 T[homas] L[awrence], Hotel de Paris, to Mrs. Wolff, Fairfield, Ross, Hertfordshire 22 Aug 1825 Item

LAW/4/107 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to [David Wilkie] [Apr 1823] Item

LAW/4/81 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to [un-named] 20 Dec 1822 Item

LAW/4/80 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to [David Wilkie?] 18 Dec 1822 Item

LAW/4/56 David Wilkie, Kensington, to [Thomas Lawernce] 29 Sep [1822] Item

LAW/4/55 David Wilkie, Phillimore Place, Kensington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 17 Sep 1822 Item

LAW/4/32 David Wilkie, Kensington, to Sir Thomas 21 Jun 1822 Item

LAW/4/22 David Wilkie, Russell Square, to Sir Thomas 9 May 1822 Item

LAW/4/184 David Wilkie, Kensington, Sir Thomas Lawrence 7 Jan 1821 Item

LAW/4/172 David Wilkie, 24 Lower Phillimore Place, Kensington 5 Dec 1823 Item

LAW/4/240 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to [?David Wilkie] 18 Aug 1824 Item

LAW/4/259 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to David Wilkie 2 Nov 1824 Item

LAW/4/267 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to David Wilkie 21 Nov 1821 Item

LAW/4/270 David Wilkie, 7 Terrace, Kensington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence, Russell Square 20 Nov 1824 Item

LAW/4/169 William Etty, Hotel de Dusseldorf, Rue des Petits Augustines, Quai Voltaire, Paris, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 14 Nov 1823 Item

LAW/3/290 David Wilkie, Edmonton, to [Thomas Lawrence] 14 May 1821 Item

LAW/3/286 Brook Taylor, Munich, to Sir Thos. Lawrence 4 May 1821 Item

LAW/3/281 M. de Ringel, Munich, to Brooke Taylor 24 Apr 1821 Item

LAW/3/253 David Wilkie, 24 Lower Phillimore Place, Kensington, to Brooke Taylor 14 Feb 1821 Item

LAW/3/240 Brooke Taylor, Munich, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 21 Dec 1820 Item

LAW/3/237 Thos. Lawrence, Russell Square, to [David Wilkie] [5 Jan 1821] Item

LAW/3/199 B. Bloomfield, Windsor Park, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 3 Sep 1820 Item

LAW/3/198 Thos. Lawrence, Bushey House, to [David Wilkie] 4 Sep 1820 Item

LAW/3/174 David Wilkie, Kensington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 24 Jul 1820 File

RAA/SEC/2/96 Tribute to the memory of Sir David Wilkie, RA [1841] Sub-series

LAW/3/144 David Wilkie. 24 Lower Phillimore Place, Kensington 30 May 1820 Item

LAW/3/142 David Wilkie, 24 Lower Phillimore Place, Kensington, to [Thomas Lawrence] 27 May 1820 Item

LAW/3/141 Thomas Lawrence, Russell Square, to [David Wilkie] 28 May 1820 Item

LAW/3/137 David Wilkie, Hyde Park Coffee House, Oxford Street, to Sir Thomas 20 May 1820 Item

LAW/3/136 Pencil sketch [c.1824] Item

LAW/3/41 Sam. Lysons, King's Bench Walk, to Thos. Lawrence, rome 5 May 1819 Item

LAW/2/314 Fred. B. Watson, Carlton House, to Sir Thomas 15 Aug 1818 Item

LAW/2/303 David Wilkie, Kensington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 17 Aug 1818 Item

LAW/2/301 Thos Lawrence, Russell Square, to [David Wilkie] [15 Aug 1818] Item

LAW/2/300 Sir Thos. Lawrence, to David Wilkie, Phillimore Place, Kensington 12 Aug 1818 Item

LAW/2/96/1 T Lawrence, Russell Square, London, to Joseph Farington, Mr. Farington's, Parrs Wood, near Manchester 6 Apr [1815] Item

LAW/2/10 Thos. Lawrence, to [Joseph Farington] 9 Feb 1812 Item

LAW/1/250 T. Lawrence, to [Joseph Farington] [14 Aug 1810] Item

LAW/1/248 T. Lawrence, Greek St., to [Joseph Farington] [23 Jul 1810] Item

LAW/1/231 T. L[awrence], to Joseph Farington, Marlborough Buildings, Bath [27 Jan 1810] Item

RAA/SEC/1/76 Letter from Sir David Wilkie, Kensington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence 17 Nov 1828 Item

RAA/SEC/1/75 Letter from David Wilkie, Phillimore Place, Kensington, to the President and Council 01 Jan 1820 Item

RAA/SEC/2/12/5 George Nicol, Secretary, British Institution, Pall Mall, to the President and Council 20 May 1842 Item

236/45/3 W.P. Frith, London, to T. Miller 10 Dec 1854 Item

236/45/2 W.P. Frith, at Jn. H. Taylor's, to T. Miller c.Dec 1854 Item

236/42/12 W.P. Frith, London, to T. Miller 15 Apr 1852 Item

236/36/20 T. Webster, Athenaeum, to T. Miller [c.1853] Item

236/36/11 T. Webster, Mall, Kensington, to Thoms Miller 26 Dec 1852 Item

RAA/GA/1/4 General Assembly minutes, vol. 4 10 Feb 1826 - 10 Dec 1841 Item

RAA/PC/1/9 Council minutes, vol. 9 07 Jan 1839 - 21 Feb 1844 Item