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Maria, Lady Callcott
David Wilkie·c. 1813
Historical Context
Maria, Lady Callcott at the Ashmolean depicts the travel writer and art critic who was a significant figure in early nineteenth-century London cultural life. Wilkie's portrait captures her intellectual character. In his early career Wilkie's meticulous oil technique was closely modelled on Dutch and Flemish genre masters—Teniers, Ostade, and Wilkie's particular hero, Jan Steen—building up small-scale figure groups with careful attention to costume and domestic setting.
Technical Analysis
The sitter's features are rendered with Wilkie's careful attention to individual character and intelligent expression.
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