Allan
DAVID, an eminent painter known as "the Scotch Hogarth," born in 1744. He studied art for 16 years in Rome, gaining a gold medal for historical composition in 1773. In 1777 he began to paint portraits in London.
Among his most celebrated pictures are "The Origin of Portraiture" and the illustrations for Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd." He died in 1796. a