GEIKIE  ,-

WALTER (1795-1837), Scottish painter, was born at Edinburgh on the 9th of November 1 795 . In his second year he was attacked by a nervous fever by which he permanently lost the faculty of hearing, but through the careful attention of his father he was enabled to obtain a good education . Before he had the advantage of the instruction of a master he had attained considerable proficiency in sketching both figures and landscapes from nature, and in 1812 he was admitted into the drawing academy of the board of Scottish manufactures . He first exhibited in 1815, and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 183x, and a fellow in 1834 . He died on the 1st of August 1837, and was interred in the Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh . Owing to his want of feeling for colour, Geikie was not a successful painter in oils, but he sketched in India ink with great truth and humour the scenes and characters of Scottish lower-class life in his native city . A series of etchings which' exhibit very high excellence were published by him in 1829-1831, and a collection of eighty-one of these was republished posthumously in 1841, with a biographical introduction by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart .