ID 737265
Lot 206 | SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. (CULTS, FIFE 1785-1841 GIBRALTAR)
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 8 000
Seven figures in a church, Ghent
oil on panel
7 x 61/8 in. (17.8 x 15.5 cm.)
When this painting first entered the collection of Sir Willoughby Gordon, it was described as being a scene in Ghent. It is not, however, the place that is the focus of the work, but the costume of the people. Wilkie had a fascination for different national dress that he indulged in his trips to France in 1814 and the Low Countries in 1816, where he noted ‘the inveteracy of the resemblance between the Dutch and Flemish pictures [of the seventeenth century] and their [present-day] originals.’
| Artist: | David Wilkie (1785 - 1841) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Artist: | David Wilkie (1785 - 1841) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Address of auction |
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