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See also:GEDDES, See also:ANDREW (1783-1844) , See also:British painter, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh. After receiving a See also:good See also:education in the high school and in the university of that See also:city, he was for five years in the See also:excise See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, in which his See also:father held the See also:post of See also:deputy auditor. After the See also:death of his father, who had opposed his See also:desire to become an artist, he came to See also:London and entered the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools. His first contribution to the exhibitions
° of the Royal Academy, a " St See also:John in the See also:Wilderness," appeared at See also:Somerset See also:House in 18o6, and from that See also:year onwards Geddes was a fairly See also:constant exhibitor of figure-subjects and portraits. His well-known portrait of See also:Wilkie, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, was at the Royal Academy in 1816. He alternated for some years between London and Edinburgh, with some excursions on the See also:Continent, but in 1831 settled in London, and was elected See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1832; and he
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died in London of See also:consumption in 1844. A very able executant, a good colourist, and a See also:close student of See also:character, he made his See also:chief success as a portrait-painter, but he produced occasional figure subjects and landscapes, and executed some admirable copies of the old masters as well. He was also a good etcher. His portrait of his See also:mother, and a portrait study, called " Summer," are in the See also:National See also:Gallery of See also:Scotland, and his portrait• of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
See See also:Art in Scotland: its Origin and Progress, by See also:Robert Brydall (1889); The Scottish School of See also:Painting, by 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 D. McKay, R.S.A. (F906).
End of Article: GEDDES, ANDREW (1783-1844)
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