The Village Recruit, which he had painted in Scotland. Anent this, Cunningham tells a significant story of its attracting the eye of a rich but timid connoisseur, who passed the shop where it was exposed for sale. Asking the price, he was told six guineas ; but, fearful perhaps for his repute, he… … SKETCH FOR A GROUP IN ' THE READING OF A WILL.' BY SIR DAVID WILKIE. and when Cunningham's friend returned the picture was gone. The poverty which attended Wilkie's early years in London seems to have been his own fault. The prices he named for his pictures were absurdly small. Again and again the…
Painting, Scottish · Painters
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