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WILLIAM AIKMAN (1682-1731)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:AIKMAN (1682-1731)  , See also:British portrait-painter, was See also:born at Cairney, See also:Forfarshire . He was intended by his See also:father for the See also:bar, but followed his natural See also:bent by becoming a See also:pupil under See also:Sir See also:John See also:Medina, the leading painter of the See also:day in See also:Scotland . In 1707 he went to See also:Italy, resided in See also:Rome for three years, after-wards travelled to See also:Constantinople and See also:Smyrna, and in 1712 returned See also:home . In See also:Edinburgh, where he practised as a portrait-painter for some years, he enjoyed the patronage of the See also:duke of See also:Argyll; and on his removal to See also:London in 1723 he soon obtained many important commissions . Perhaps his most successful See also:work was the portrait of the poet See also:Gay . He also painted portraits of himself, See also:Fletcher of Saltoun, See also:William See also:Carstares and See also:Thomson the poet . The likenesses were generally truthful and the See also:style was modelled very closely upon that of Sir See also:Godfrey See also:Kneller . See also:Aikman held a See also:good position in See also:literary society and counted among his See also:personal See also:friends See also:Swift, See also:Pope, Thomson, See also:Allan See also:Ramsay, See also:Somervile and See also:Mallet .

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