John Miller Gray

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: John Miller Gray

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica”, published in 1911, is a work by John Miller Gray. It explores elements such as Wilkie, painter and the Royal Academy.

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Apart from his skill as a painter Wilkie was an admirable etcher. The best of his plates, such as the “Gentleman at his Desk” (Laing, VII.) , the “Pope examining a Censer” (Laing, VIII.) , and the “Seat of Hands” (Laing, IV.) , are worthy to rank with the work of the greatest figure-etchers. During his lifetime he issued a portfolio of seven plates, and in 1875 Dr David Laing catalogued and published the complete series of his etchings and dry-points, supplying the place of a few copper-plates that had been lost by reproductions, in his Etchings of David Wilkie and Andrew Geddes. ”

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ One of his first patrons in London was Stodart, a pianoforte maker, a distant connexion of the Wilkie family, who commissioned his portrait and other works and introduced the young artist to the dowager-countess of Mansfield. This lady’s son was the purchaser of the “Village Politicians,” which attracted great attention when it was exhibited in the Royal Academy of 1806, where it was followed in the succeeding year by the “Blind Fiddler,” a commission from the painter’s lifelong friend Sir George Beaumont. ”

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Wilkie was indeed greatest as a genre-painter. But on technical grounds his change of style was criticized with undue severity. While his later works are admittedly more frequently faulty in form and draughtsmanship than those of his earlier period, some of them at least (the “Bride’s Toilet,” 1837, for instance) show a true gain and development in power of handling, and in mastery over complex and forcible colour harmonies. ”

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ In addition to his impressions from antique gems, Tassie executed many large profile medallion portraits of his contemporaries, and these form the most original and definitely artistic class of his works. They were modelled in wax from the life or from drawings done from the life, and — when this was impossible — from other authentic sources. ”

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ WILKIE, SIR DAVID (1785–1841) , Scottish painter, was born on the 18th of November 1785, the son of the parish minister of Cults in Fifeshire. He very early developed an extraordinary love for art. In 1799, after he had attended school at Pitlessie, Kettle and Cupar, his father reluctantly yielded to his desire to become a painter; and through the influence of the earl of Leven Wilkie was admitted to the Trustees’ Academy in Edinburgh, and began the study of art under John Graham, the teacher of the school. ”

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ The “Reception of the King at the Entrance of Holyrood Palace” was the incident ultimately chosen; and in the following year, when the artist, upon the death of Raeburn, had been appointed royal limner for Scotland, he received sittings from the monarch, and began to work diligently upon the subject. But several years elapsed before its completion; for, like all such ceremonial works, it proved a harassing commission, uncongenial to the painter while in progress and unsatisfactory when finished. ”

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Meanwhile Wilkie’s eminent success in art had been rewarded by professional honours. In November 1809 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, when he had hardly attained the age prescribed by its laws, and in February 1811 he became a full academician. ”

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John Miller Gray, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ His time was also much occupied with portraiture, many of his works of this class being royal commissions. His portraits are pictorial and excellent in general distribution, but the faces are frequently wanting in drawing and character. ”

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