The University of Edinburgh and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica are delighted to announce the creation of the "David Wilkie Scholarship for the Study of Spanish Art", commencing in September 2017.

This doctoral scholarship will cover the University of Edinburgh’s Home, European Union, or international tuition fees for three years (and a fourth year if required), together with an annual stipend of £14,000 for living costs and travel.

The scholarship supports research on Spanish art and visual culture, including its reception by British artists, critics and collectors. Proposals relating to the period between the late seventeenth and the twentieth century would be particularly welcome.

The scholarship is named after David Wilkie, the early nineteenth-century Scottish artist and pioneering traveller who found inspiration in Spain and was the dedicatee of Washington Irving’s Tales of the Alhambra.

Applications should be submitted to the University of Edinburgh online postgraduate application system (History of Art) by 1 February.

For further details, applicants are advised to contact the Postgraduate Office well before the deadline: ecaresearchdegreesed.ac.uk.