Faire voir l'Orient : réflexion sur un artifice victorien by Laurent Bury

“…Victorian Orientalism also implied a “re-orientalisation” of the Christian myth; artists as diverse as David Wilkie or William Holman Hunt were motivated by their quest for authenticity, even though the racist prejudice then prevalent had to be taken into account. …”
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Smugglers, Poachers and Wreckers in Nineteenth-Century English Painting by Christiana Payne

“…Paintings of poachers were usually didactic in tone, representing the poacher as guilty and ashamed; the smuggler, however, was depicted in a much more positive light, as a heroic ‘free trader’; while wreckers were sometimes shown as poor people exercising their right to subsistence, sometimes as relics of a savage past, before the improvements brought about by lighthouses and lifeboats. J. M. W. Turner, David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer and Charles Napier Hemy are amongst the artists discussed.…”
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Standing at Cultural Crossroads: Erskine Nicol’s Representations of Ireland by Amélie Dochy

“…Un tel choix s’explique par la formation artistique de l’artiste, qui eut lieu en Écosse, où la peinture des scènes domestiques avait acquis une grande renommée grâce à David Wilkie. …”
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