Sir David Wilkie (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2018/12/12 - 162 ページ Excerpt from Sir David Wilkie HE large work of Allan Cunningham contains almost all that need be said upon the Life of Wilkie, and has no doubt been the fountain-head from which the numerous compendious biographies of the great English painter, in dictionaries, albums, and books of engravings, &c., have been derived. Besides this work, other very interesting details of Wilkie's life are found in the autobiographies of his friends. He lived in an autobiographical age, and I have extracted from the lives of Haydon, Collins, Irving, Sir Walter Scott, Leslie, Raimbach, Thomas Moore, and others, many incidents for my purpose, and from the writings of Burnet, Redgrave, Waagen, Bulwer, Westmacott, Prince Hoare, and others, critical observations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
