Horatio McCulloch

Horatio McCulloch 1847

Horatio McCulloch (sometimes written M'Culloch) (born November 29, 1806 in Glasgow , † July 12, 1867 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish landscape painter .

Life

McCulloch began his professional career as a "house painter" before taking lessons from John Knox (1878-1845) together with Daniel Macnee and William Leighton Leitch . He then moved to Edinburgh with Leitch, where they colored prints for works such as Prideaux John Selby's “British Birds”. McCulloch stayed in town for four to five years, during which time he became aware of the work of Hugh William Williams and John Thomson , which would influence his later artistic development.

Back in Glasgow, McCulloch exhibited with Knox in the Glasgow Dilettanti Society in 1828 . A year later it was represented for the first time at the exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy . In 1834 he became an associate and in 1839, the year he moved to Edinburgh, he became a full member of the Academy.

McCulloch left Scotland only once on a study tour of Wales , the Lake District and Derbyshire . Otherwise he worked mostly in the Western Highlands and Islands . He often made sketches in the great outdoors, which he later worked out in the studio . The prints made from his templates helped make the Scottish highlands popular.

In the Royal Scottish Academy he exhibited a total of 198 works and was considered one of the leading Scottish landscape painters. In 1862 one of his paintings sold for 400 pounds ; Perhaps his best-known work is Loch Katrine View (Perth Art Gallery).

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  Loch Lomond

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  Loch Fad, Isle of Bute, 1844

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  Inverlochy Castle, 1857

literature

• Marcus Halliwell: Highland Landscapes - Paintings of Scotland in the 19th Century. Garamond Publishers Ltd, London, 1990, ISBN 1-85583-001-9 , p. 14.

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