Wilkie, Sir David, painter, born at Cults, Fife; executed a great many pictures depicting homely subjects, which were very popular, and are generally well known by the engravings of them, such as the “Rent Day,” “The Penny Wedding,” “Reading the Will,” &c., which were followed by others in a more ambitious style, and less appreciated, as well as portraits (1785‒1841).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Wilkes, John * Wilkins, John