David Farquharson

The End of the Day's Fishing

Loch Lomond

David Farquharson (born November 17, 1839 in Blairgowrie , Perthshire , † July 12, 1907 in Sennen Cove , Cornwall ) was a Scottish landscape painter .

Life

Farquharson first lived in his hometown but moved to Edinburgh in 1872 in search of assignments , where he stayed until 1882. He then went to London and lived in St. John's Wood , a London bohemian district , until 1897 . He spent the rest of his life in the small town of Sennen Cove in Cornwall.

Farquharson exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1868 , and from 1877 to 1904 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. His landscapes attracted a lot of attention there, which earned him the election of Associate Member of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1904 .

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Farquharson's pictures show a great variety of motifs; they range from Dutch landscapes and river views, to English coastal scenery, to views of the Scottish Lowlands and Highlands, which he also frequently visited during the years he lived in Cornwall. Farquharson's major works include The Links of Forth (1883), In a Fog (1897), Full Moon and Spring Tide (1904) and Birnam Wood (1906).

literature

• Dictionary of National Biography on the multimedia CD Infopedia UK, Softkey Multimedia Inc., 1996.
• Marcus Halliwell: Highland Landscapes - Paintings of Scotland in the 19th Century. Garamond Publishers Ltd, London, 1990, ISBN 1-85583-001-9 , p. 32.