Among his pictures of this period are mentioned a subject from Macbeth, Ceres in Search of Proserpine, and Diana and Calisto, which in 1803 gained a premium of ten guineas at the Trustees ' Academy, while his pencil portraits of himself and his mother, dated that year, and now in the possession of the Duke of Buccleuch, prove that Wilkie had already attained considerable certainty of touch and power of rendering character.

Part of the perimeter ditch of the prison survives running between Cureton Street and John Islip Street: it is now used as a clothes-drying area for residents of Wilkie House.

The Coalition, as well as Rob Oakeshott, Andrew Wilkie and Tony Windsor, have called on Slipper to continue to stand aside pending a resolution of the sexual harassment claims.

To restore his health and escape for a time from the cares of London life, Haydon joined his intimate friend David Wilkie in a trip to Paris ; he studied at the Louvre ; and on returning to England, produced Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, which afterwards formed the nucleus of the American Gallery of Painting, erected by his cousin, John Haviland of Philadelphia.

Many painters mentioned elsewhere painted historical subjects, including Millais ( The Boyhood of Raleigh and many others ), Ford Madox Brown ( Cromwell on his Farm ), David Wilkie, Watts and Frith, and West, Bonington and Turner in earlier decades.

In 1828 Sir David Wilkie wrote from Madrid that he felt himself in the presence of a new power in art as he looked at the works of Velázquez, and at the same time found a wonderful affinity between this artist and the British school of portrait painters, especially Henry Raeburn.

Through the influence of the Earl of Leven Wilkie was admitted to the Trustees ' Academy in Edinburgh, and began the study of art under John Graham.

The Clique was characterised by their rejection of academic high art in favour of genre painting, following the precedents of William Hogarth and David Wilkie.

Showing an aptitude for art, he was apprenticed to a coach-painter, and studied under John Graham at the Trustees ' Academy, with David Wilkie, John Burnet, and Alexander George Fraser.

At first, influenced by West and Fuseli, he essayed high art, and his earliest important subject depicted Saul and the Witch of Endor ; but he soon discovered his true aptitude and became a painter of cabinet-pictures, dealing, not like those of David Wilkie, with the contemporary life that surrounded him, but with scenes from the great masters of fiction, from Shakespeare and Cervantes, Addison and Molière, Swift, Sterne, Fielding and Smollett.

Besides these he painted two portraits of Sir David Wilkie, the Duke of York ( for the town-hall, Liverpool ), Dean William Buckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Samuel Rogers, Michael Faraday ( engraved in mezzotint by Henry Cousins ), Thomas Dalton, and a head of Napoleon I, painted in Paris in 1802, not from actual sittings, but with Empress Josephine's consent, who afforded him opportunities of observing the First Consul while at dinner.

The principal influence on his work was the hugely popular domestic subjects painted by Sir David Wilkie.

Phillip's own career was to follow that of fellow-Scot Wilkie very closely, beginning with carefully detailed paintings depicting the lives of Scottish crofters, and moving on to much more broadly painted scenes of Spanish life influenced by Murillo and Velázquez.

Trophy hunting has the potential to provide economic justification for the preservation of larger areas of bongo habitat than national parks, especially in remote regions of Central Africa where possibilities for commercially successful tourism are very limited ( Wilkie and Carpenter 1999 ).

The famous literary opium addicts Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wilkie Collins also took it for its pleasurable effects.

It was not unusual for men and women in Victorian society to have affairs ; Charles Bray, John Chapman, Friedrich Engels, and Wilkie Collins all had affairs, though more discreetly than Lewes and Evans.

Though not noted as a religious painter, Wilkie made the trip with a Protestant agenda to reform religious painting, as he believed that: " a Martin Luther in painting is as much called for as in theology, to sweep away the abuses by which our divine pursuit is encumbered ", by which he meant traditional Christian iconography.

In Wilkie Collins's most popular novel, The Moonstone, one of the chief characters and narrators, Gabriel Betteredge has faith in all that Robinson Crusoe says and uses the book for a sort of divination.

Six crossbenchers hold the balance of power: Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MPs Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply, independent MP Bob Katter and National Party of Western Australia MP Tony Crook declared their support for the Coalition on confidence and supply.

Despite the rhetorical distaste all serial authors used the cliffhanger and Wilkie Collins is famous for saying about the technique: " Make ' em cry, make ' em laugh, make ' em wait – exactly in that order.

This would have included two men convicted of murder ( later reduced to manslaughter ) for the killing of David Wilkie, a taxi driver driving a non-striking miner to work in South Wales during the strike.

Art Evans plays Private Wilkie, a nervous man too acquiescent for his own good.

As a registered Republican, she voted for Wendell Wilkie in the 1940 presidential election.

Carmichael was a Republican supporter and anti-FDR, voting for Wendell Wilkie for president in 1940, and was often aghast at the left-leaning political views of his friends in Hollywood.

In 1825 he was elected professor of painting at the Royal Academy, succeeding Henry Fuseli, and, in order to qualify himself for his duties, visited Italy and Rome in company with William Hilton, R. A., and also Sir David Wilkie, whom they met in Florence.

In 1822 Wilkie visited Edinburgh, in order to select from the Visit of King George IV to Scotland a fitting subject for a picture.

In the works which Wilkie produced in his final period he exchanged the detailed handling, the delicate finish and the reticent hues of his earlier works for a style distinguished by breadth of touch, largeness of effect, richness of tone and full force of melting and powerful colour.

He referred to Wilkie as a " sycophant for the rich and famous ".

Six crossbenchers hold the balance of power: Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MPs Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply, independent MP Bob Katter and National Party of Western Australia MP Tony Crook declared their support for the Coalition on confidence and supply.

This majority was reduced to 75 once more, when Wilkie withdrew his support for the Gillard government on the 21st of January, 2012.

Six crossbenchers hold the balance of power: Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MPs Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply, independent MP Bob Katter and National Party of Western Australia MP Tony Crook declared their support for the Coalition on confidence and supply.

Dickens's protégé, Wilkie Collins ( 1824 – 1889 )— sometimes referred to as the " grandfather of English detective fiction "— is credited with the first great mystery novel, The Woman in White.

* The Moonstone ( 1868 ) by Wilkie Collins uses a collection of various documents to construct a detective novel in English.

* 1889 – Wilkie Collins, English author and playwright ( b. 1824 )

Perhaps the earliest reference to the concept comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: " I begin to believe in only one civilizing influence — the discovery one of these days of a destructive agent so terrible that War shall mean annihilation and men's fears will force them to keep the peace ".

There is some evidence that the English writers Wilkie Collins and Christina Rossetti were also enthusiasts.

Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, while The Woman in White is regarded as one of the finest sensation novels.

The Moonstone ( 1868 ) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language.

* The Perils of Certain English Prisoners in the Extra Christmas Number ( 7 December, 1857 ) with Wilkie Collins

English author Wilkie Collins referred to an ottoman in his novel, The Moonstone, " She instantly seated herself on the ottoman in the back drawing-room.

In 1883, English author Wilkie Collins dedicated his anti-vivisection book Heart and Science to Sarony.

Wilkie Collins described Elliotson as " one of the greatest English physiologists ," and cites an example of state-dependent memory from Elliotson's Human Physiology in The Moonstone.

The English House of Wilkie was first recorded in the Domesday Book as being Lords of at least three great manors in Kent.