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See also:AIKMAN, 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 (1682-1731) , See also:British portrait-painter, was See also:born at Cairney, See also:Forfarshire. He was intended by his See also:father for the See also:bar, but followed his natural See also:bent by becoming a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil under See also:Sir See also:John See also:Medina, the leading painter of the See also:day in See also:Scotland. In 1707 he went to See also:Italy, resided in See also:Rome for three years, after-wards travelled to See also:Constantinople and See also:Smyrna, and in 1712 returned See also:home. In See also:Edinburgh, where he practised as a portrait-painter for some years, he enjoyed the patronage of the See also:duke of See also:Argyll; and on his removal to See also:London in 1723 he soon obtained many important commissions. Perhaps his most successful See also:work was the portrait of the poet See also:Gay. He also painted portraits of himself, See also:Fletcher of Saltoun, William See also:Carstares and See also:Thomson the poet. The likenesses were generally truthful and the See also:style was modelled very closely upon that of Sir See also:Godfrey See also:Kneller. Aikman held a See also:good position in See also:literary society and counted among his See also:personal See also:friends See also:Swift, See also:Pope, Thomson, See also:Allan See also:Ramsay, See also:Somervile and See also:Mallet.
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