Artist
Richard Waitt
British, d. 1732
Richard Waitt was a British Rococo painting artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at National Galleries Scotland.
Richard Waitt liked his Scotch neat and his shadows dramatic. A 1720s Edinburgh painter, he kept one foot in the Dutch still-life tradition and the other in the candlelit corners of Scottish taverns, where a single silver spoon or a half-empty glass could turn quiet into story. His 1724 Still-Life is the door: a black tabletop, a single glowing coin, and a knife whose blade catches the light like a secret. Follow the glint—it leads straight into the quiet ambition of early British art.
Works by Richard Waitt
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