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February 4, 2009
Nicholas Tromans David Wilkie: The People's Painter Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 320 pp.; 10 color ills.; 49 b/w ills. Cloth $120.00 (9780748625208)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.12

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Both throughout his life and since, Sir David Wilkie has occupied an ambivalent, and occasionally paradoxical, position within the canon of British and European late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century painting. The span of his career alone prevents easy categorization, falling as it does neatly between the polemics of Reynolds and the aesthetics of Ruskin. He was a Scottish painter who forged a career in England and asserted a very British vision, yet art historically his...