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een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Robert David Wilkie
The Quiet Observer of the Natural World Born in the coastal air of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Robert David Wilkie began to find his voice through the brush around 1849. His early years in the British colony provided a foundation for a life that would eventually find its center in the bustling artistic circles of the American East. By the middle of the nineteenth century, his hand was already busy contributing landscape views to publications
like Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. He was a man of many roles, moving through the world as a painter, a draftsman, and an educator, always seeking to capture the subtle nuances of the environment around him. As the years passed, his residence shifted toward the urban energy of Boston and Roxbury, where he remained until the turn of the century. This period of his life saw him deeply embedded in the visual culture of the…