SIR DAVID WILKIE R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR) Figures by a country tavern oil on panel 55⁄8 x 73⁄8 in. (14.3 x 18.8 cm.) Though this little sketch may, at first glance, be taken as a copy after Teniers, it is in fact entirely of Wilkie’s own invention, though evidently using the Dutch master as his inspiration. As his first biographer, Allan Cunningham noted: ‘It was a favourite theory of [Wilkie’s] to keep some fine picture in his mind while his brush was wet, that...he might warm his taste by its beauties, and, without exactly imitating, create something akin to it in spirit and feeling’ (The Life of Sir David Wilkie London, 1843, I, p. 435). Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
SIR DAVID WILKIE R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR) Figures by a country tavern oil on panel 55⁄8 x 73⁄8 in. (14.3 x 18.8 cm.) Though this little sketch may, at first glance, be taken as a copy after Teniers, it is in fact entirely of Wilkie’s own invention, though evidently using the Dutch master as his inspiration. As his first biographer, Allan Cunningham noted: ‘It was a favourite theory of [Wilkie’s] to keep some fine picture in his mind while his brush was wet, that...he might warm his taste by its beauties, and, without exactly imitating, create something akin to it in spirit and feeling’ (The Life of Sir David Wilkie London, 1843, I, p. 435). Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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