David Allan

1744–1796 · Neoclassicism

David Allan was a Scottish painter, limner, and illustrator, best known for historical subjects and genre works.

19 paintings

• Peasant woman of a town in the Kingdom of Naples (1770)
• The Interior of the Foulis Academy of Fine Arts (1761)
• Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), and the First Lady Hamilton (1738–1782), in Their Apartment in Naples (1770)
• David Allan (1744–1796), Artist (self portrait) (1770)
• James Abercromby of Tullibody, Esq. (1776–1858) (1779)
• The Children of David Allan (1790)
• The Spreull Family (1793)
• Charity (triptych, right wing)
• Professor John Anderson (1726–1796)
• Professor Francis Home (1719–1813)
• Faith (triptych, left wing)
• Portrait of a Young Man in a Green Jacket
• Mrs Scott (1739/1740–1819), Mother of Sir Walter Scott
• Hope (triptych, centre panel)
• Portrait of the children of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
• Joseph Nolleken (1770)
• Sir William Hamilton (1775)
• Anne Forbes (1781)
• James Tassie, 1735 - 1799. Sculptor and gem engraver (1781)