1832
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Portrait of David Wilkie is a 1832 by Daniel Maclise, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a man’s face in profile, turned slightly toward us. His hair is curly and messy, and he wears a high-necked shirt with a ruffled collar. The drawing is loose and quick, with light pencil strokes that leave some areas fuzzy. The artist used short, overlapping lines to build up shadows and texture—this is called cross-hatching. It gives the sketch a sketchy, almost unfinished feel, like a quick study. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists use it to create depth with just pencil.
The drawing portrays David Wilkie as a young man in a quarter-length portrait, his head turned slightly to the right. Part of a larger collection of 390 drawings and sketches in pencil, pen and ink, and color, it was housed in a pillar stand of thirty frames alongside works by other artists, including several depicting notable literary figures. The collection included portraits of individuals such as C.J. Apperley, Sir Egerton Brydges, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Benjamin Disraeli, among others.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Daniel Maclise (25 January 1806 – 25 April 1870) was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.
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