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Artist



Description	British painter
Date of birth/death	13 October 1713	10 August 1784
Location of birth/death	Edinburgh	Dover
Work location	London, Rome, Edinburgh
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Portrait of David Hume (1711-1776), Historian and Philosopher

Date

1766

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 × 63.5 cm (30 × 25 in)

Current location

Scottish National Gallery

	Native name	National Gallery of Scotland
	Location	Edinburgh
	Coordinates	55° 57′ 3.30″ N, 3° 11′ 44.40″ W
	Established	1859
	Website	www.nationalgalleries.org/nationalgallerycomplex
	Authority control	WorldCat

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Web Gallery of Art

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RAMSAY, Allan

(b. 1713, Edinburgh, d. 1784, Dover)

Portrait of David Hume 1766 Oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish empiricist philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who conceived of philosophy as the inductive, experimental science of human nature. Taking the scientific method of the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton as his model and building on the epistemology of the English philosopher John Locke, Hume tried to describe how the mind works in acquiring what is called knowledge. He concluded that no theory of reality is possible; there can be no knowledge of anything beyond experience. Despite the enduring impact of his theory of knowledge, Hume seems to have considered himself chiefly as a moralist.

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Author: RAMSAY, Allan Title: Portrait of David Hume Time-line: 1751-1800 School: English Form: painting

Type: portrait

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