Peace -- Burial at Sea. Scottish painter David Wilkie, returning from trip to Smyrna & Jerusalem in 1841, dies aboard ship & is buried at sea off Gibralter. Fab commemoration here by J.M.W. Turner, born OTD 1775.

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Overseen by our conservation biologist, Dr Martin Wilkie, we are creating colonization sites for bog flora and removal of dominating scrub to provide open nesting areas for ground-nesting birds are two critical parts of the work carried out at Eelmoor Marsh.

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Scenes from David Wilkie’s Sketches in Turkey, Egypt and Syria (1840-41). Thanks to the newly vamped and interactive website.

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Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885 – 1971)
*Alice Wilkie
* Dorothy Knapp - 1925

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Wilkie Collins - The moonstone - (William Sharp, illustrator) Sergeant Cuff on the Cliffs

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Napoleon Sarony paid enormous sums to Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Wilkie Collins and others to sit for portraits:
https://t.co/7i0gzmJsNX

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wilkie twycross, the apparition instructor! always fun to do designs for super minor characters

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& intrigued by this pic presented to by executors of David Wilkie's estate, any connection to Scottish artist?

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"Peace: Burial at Sea of the Body of Sir David Wilkie" by J. M. W. Turner found via

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