Excerpt from Sir David Wilkie, R. A<br><br>Wilkie's versatility - Preceding models - David Allan Allan's satirical sketches and sketches of Scots life and character Thomson's Select Collection of Orn'z'mzl Scottish A {rs - Burns on David Allan - Dutch genre - Scots portraiture - George Jamesone - The Medinas - Joseph Michael Wright - William Aikman - Allan Ramsay, the younger - David Martin - Sir Henry Raebum Scots historical painting Gavin Hamilton The brothers Runciman - Scots landscape work - Wilkie's compara tive neglect of landscape-jacob More - Alexander N asmyth.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.