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Geikie, Walter
(b Edinburgh, 9 Nov 1795; d Edinburgh, 1 or 2 Aug 1837). Scottish painter and printmaker. Before he was two years old he was left deaf and dumb by an illness. However, he did benefit from the new approach to teaching the deaf pioneered in Edinburgh by Thomas Braidwood, whose first successful pupil, Charles Sheriff (c. 1750–after 1831), had become a painter; it may have been Braidwood who encouraged Geikie in this direction. He studied drawing privately with Patrick Gibson (1782–1829) before enrolling in 1812 at the Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh, where John Graham (1754–1817) was the master. Graham had taught David Wilkie and was succeeded at the Academy in 1818 by Andrew Wilson, a friend of both Wilkie and Geikie. Wilkie was the dominant influence on Geikie’s art. Geikie first exhibited in 1815 and contributed to exhibitions in Edinburgh regularly thereafter, becoming an Associate of the Scottish Academy in 1831 and an Academician in 1834.
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