Andrew Geddes (1783 – 1844)

• Was a Scottish portrait painter and etcher.
• Was born in south Edinburgh.
• After the death of his father, who had opposed his desire to become an artist, he went to London and entered the Royal Academy schools.
• His first contribution to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, a St John in the Wilderness, appeared at Somerset House in 1806, 
• His well-known portrait of David Wilkie, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, was at the Royal Academy in 1816.
• He alternated for some years between London and Edinburgh.
• In 1831 settled in London, and was elected associate of the Royal Academy in 1832.
• He died at Berners Street in London of tuberculosis on 5 May 1844.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Andrew Geddes, Self-portrait, about 1815.
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