See also:ANDREW See also:GEDDES (1783-1844)
, See also:British painter, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh
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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 (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, in which his See also:father held the See also:post of See also:deputy auditor
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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
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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
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His well-known portrait of See also:Wilkie, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, was at the Royal Academy in 1816
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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
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died in London of See also:consumption in 1844
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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
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He was also a good etcher
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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
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William D
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McKay, R.S.A
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(F906)
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