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GEIKIE ,-WALTER (1795-1837), Scottish painter, was born at Edinburgh on the 9th of November 1 795. In his second year he was attacked by a nervous
hearing , but through the careful attention of his father he was enabled to obtain a good education. Before he had the advantage of the instruction of a master he had attained considerable proficiency in sketching both figures and landscapes from nature, and in 1812 he was admitted into the drawing academy
Academy
oils , but he sketched in India ink with great
lower
life
series of etchings which' exhibit very high excellence were published by him in 1829-1831, and a collection of eighty-one of these was republished posthumously in 1841, with a biographical introduction by Sir Thomas
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