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To challenge the taste of the King and the Duke, therefore, carries with it the con- demnation of Wilkie. It would, however, have been absurd for Haydon to include Wilkie in the sentence passed upon Jan Steen on the ground of subject. The wholesale condemnation of the Crown and aris- tocracy on the score of degraded taste is, in other words, mere wantonness. Wilkie and his art were thoroughly understood of the very men against whom the Haydon- ian artillery most steadily thundered. He at least ...had nothing to complain of latterly in the general condition of culture and artistic taste. For the individual excep- tion, and for earlier undervaluation, allowance may with readier indulgence be made. The alternative to the Haydonian view is thus reached. In 1806, Wilkie wrote Mr. Alexander Davison ex- pressing his sense of the honour of ' being called upon to contribute in forming a grand collection of pictures 56 FAMOUS SCOTS illustrative of our national history. ' About the same time he wrote Mr.
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