. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. ^?^fe^-Tf-^, *? ji: ,*^. ;5i « 5Q bo — « H R I WI L K I E. 15 It is quite impossible, in our allotted space, to enumerate all the pictureshe painted of those subjects upon which his fame will ever most firmly can only point out a few of the more popular:— Blindmans Buff,painted in 1813, for the Prince Regent; Distraining for Rent, in 1814, forthe Directors of the British Institution; the Breakfast, in 1816, for theiVIarquis of Stafford ; the Penny Wedding, in 1818, for the Prince Regent;in 1820, the Reading of the
. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. ^?^fe^-Tf-^, *? ji: ,*^. ;5i « 5Q bo — « H R I WI L K I E. 15 It is quite impossible, in our allotted space, to enumerate all the pictureshe painted of those subjects upon which his fame will ever most firmly can only point out a few of the more popular:— Blindmans Buff,painted in 1813, for the Prince Regent; Distraining for Rent, in 1814, forthe Directors of the British Institution; the Breakfast, in 1816, for theiVIarquis of Stafford ; the Penny Wedding, in 1818, for the Prince Regent;in 1820, the Reading of the Will, for the then King of Bavaria, fromwhom the artist received 450 guineas as its price : after the death of themonarch it was purchased by his successor, Louis I., at the sum of 1,000guineas; it is now in the royal gallery at Schleissheim. In 1821 he com-pleted the Chelsea Pensioners, commenced in 1817, for the Duke ofWellington. On the death of Sir Henry Raeburn in 1803, Wilkie was appointed Limner to the King in Scotland. A few years after this he changed bothhis subjects and his
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