Among his pictures of this period might be mentioned a subject from "Macbeth", "Ceres in Search of Proserpine", and "Diana and Calisto", which in 1803 gained a premium of ten guineas at the Trustees' Academy, while his pencil portraits of himself and his mother, dated that year, and now in the possession of the Duke of Buccleuch, prove that Wilkie had already attained considerable certainty of touch and power of rendering character. A scene from Allan Ramsay, and a sketch from Hector Macneill's ballad "Scotland's Skaith", afterwards developed into the well-known "Village Politicians".