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| Lived | November 18, 1785 - June 1, 1841 ( 19th century ) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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Sir David Wilkie Biography |
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Some of Sir David Wilkie's most famous paintings include 'Reading of the Will', 'The Defence of Saragossa', 'Portrait of Sir Alexander Keith' and 'The First Council of Queen Victoria'.
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In 1822 Sir David Wilkie painted 'Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo', which generated so much interest on its exhibition that crowd-control measures had to be employed. The Duke of Wellington, who had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and commissioned the painting, found himself paying for it the enormous sum of 1,200 guineas. He chose to compensate Wilkie in cash rather than by cheque so that his banker wouldn't think him a "damned fool for paying such an outrageous sum for a painting."
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