Portrait of Abram Jacob Messir, 1841, Colored chalks and watercolor with white gouache on gray paper, sheet: 17 x 11 1/4 in. (43. 2 x 28. 5 cm), Drawings, Sir David Wilkie (British, Cults, Scotland 1785?1841 off Gibraltar), Wilkie, who reenergized British genre painting in the opening decades of the nineteenth century, was adept at capturing faces and attitudes. In 1841 he traveled to the Holy Land to seek new material and died unexpectedly at sea while returning to London