Artist
David RA Wilkie




David RA Wilkie is a Romanticism artist. 8 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Wilkie made watercolors and drawings that told detailed stories, often about real people and events. His *Finding the Body of Tippoo Sahib* shows soldiers lifting a ruler’s dead body after a battle. The sketch for *The Reading of the Will* captures a tense family moment around a table. Tap *The Peep o’Day Boy* to explore his scenes of Irish history in bold pencil lines.
Works by David RA Wilkie
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.



