smyth, and, in 18 17, entered the schools of the Royal Academy. While still young he went to Italy, where he soon began to collect pictures by the old masters. He lived for three years at Genoa, and there acquired over fifty important pictures, among them a famous Rubens, the Elevation of the… … LANDSCAPE. BY ANDREW WILSON. {British Museum.) Bonaparte when he visited the Society's exhibition. Bonaparte paused before Wilson's picture, when an envious colleague whispered that the painter was English. ' Le Talent n'a pas de pays,' was the General's swift rebuke. Coming home in 1805, he…
Painting, Scottish · Painters
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