Lucinda Hawksley
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Lucinda Hawksley is the author of Dickens's Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves & Impact, Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, and Essential Pre-Raphaelites. She is also an award-winning travel writer. Her work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die and 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, where the work originally appeared.
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Self-Portrait, early painting by British genre artist Sir David Wilkie, created in about 1804. Painted when he was just 20 years old, this portrait represents a defining moment in the artist’s life: Wilkie was about to leave his native Scotland for England. Having studied in Edinburgh, Wilkie left…
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