British 1748-1832,English painter and etcher of Dutch descent. He was the son of a Dutch joiner who had settled in London by 1748. On 19 November 1765 he was apprenticed for seven years to his godfather, Samuel Haworth, a joiner in London. However, he left after five years and enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy Schools in 1769. He exhibited small portraits at the Society of Artists (1776-8) and at the Royal Academy (from 1778), where he also showed fancy pictures of banditti in the style of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. But the genre that he made very much his own was theatrical portraiture: he exhibited theatrical portraits at the Royal Academy almost every year from 1792 to 1821.   Related Paintings of Samuel De Wilde :. | Sponsorship of Frederic | Manfred on the Jungfrau | Oopjen Coppit | The Fishing Party | No title |
Related Artists:
Mitchell Ken
about 1752-1845
Giovanni Battista Recco
Italian, 1615-1660
Karl Kaspar Pitz
painted Portrait of a cleric a book in his right hand, by a marble bust in before 1795