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WALTER (1795-1837), Scottish painter, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 9th of See also:November 1 795. In his second See also:year he was attacked by a See also:nervous See also:fever by which he permanently lost the See also:faculty of See also:hearing, but through the careful See also:attention of his See also:father he was enabled to obtain a See also:good See also:education. Before he had the See also:advantage of the instruction of a See also:master he had attained considerable proficiency in sketching both figures and landscapes from nature, and in 1812 he was admitted into the See also:drawing See also:academy of the See also:board of Scottish manufactures. He first exhibited in 1815, and was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 183x, and a See also:fellow in 1834. He died on the 1st of See also:August 1837, and was interred in the Greyfriars See also:churchyard, Edinburgh. Owing to his want of feeling for See also:colour, Geikie was not a successful painter in See also:oils, but he sketched in See also:India See also:ink with See also:great truth and See also:humour the scenes and characters of Scottish See also:lower-class See also:life in his native See also:city. A See also:series of etchings which' exhibit very high excellence were published by him in 1829-1831, and a collection of eighty-one of these was republished posthumously in 1841, with a See also:biographical introduction by See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Dick See also:Lauder, See also:Bart.

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