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ANDREW GEDDES (1783-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 548 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREW See also:GEDDES (1783-1844)  , See also:British painter, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh . After receiving a See also:good See also:education in the high school and in the university of that See also:city, he was for five years in the See also:excise See also:office, in which his See also:father held the See also:post of See also:deputy auditor . After the See also:death of his father, who had opposed his See also:desire to become an artist, he came to See also:London and entered the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools . His first contribution to the exhibitions ° of the Royal Academy, a " St See also:John in the See also:Wilderness," appeared at See also:Somerset See also:House in 18o6, and from that See also:year onwards See also:Geddes was a fairly See also:constant exhibitor of figure-subjects and portraits . His well-known portrait of See also:Wilkie, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, was at the Royal Academy in 1816 . He alternated for some years between London and Edinburgh, with some excursions on the See also:Continent, but in 1831 settled in London, and was elected See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1832; and he See also:Lower See also:Surface of the Toe of (a) See also:Gecko, (b) Hemidactylusenlarged . died in London of See also:consumption in 1844 . A very able executant, a good colourist, and a See also:close student of See also:character, he made his See also:chief success as a portrait-painter, but he produced occasional figure subjects and landscapes, and executed some admirable copies of the old masters as well . He was also a good etcher . His portrait of his See also:mother, and a portrait study, called " Summer," are in the See also:National See also:Gallery of See also:Scotland, and his portrait• of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery . See See also:Art in Scotland: its Origin and Progress, by See also:Robert Brydall (1889); The Scottish School of See also:Painting, by See also:William D . McKay, R.S.A .

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