Joseph Farquharson
Joseph Farquharson RA (born May 4, 1846 in Edinburgh , † April 15, 1935 in Finzean , Aberdeenshire ) was a Scottish painter, particularly appreciated for his snowy landscapes with sheep as accessories, often in the morning light or in the evening mood. Many of his views depict the land around his birthplace.
Joseph Farquharson grew up on an estate near Finzean in north-east Scotland. The popular Scottish landscape painter Peter Graham briefed him before he moved to the Edinburgh Trustees Academy and the Life Schools of the Royal Scottish Academy . At the age of 14, Farquharson exhibited his first work at the Royal Scottish Academy . He had his first exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1873; candidate since 1900; he finally became a full member of the Academy in 1915.
In 1880 and in the years thereafter, Farquharson stayed in Paris and studied there under the academician Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran . In 1885 he went on a trip to Egypt , which was reflected in a series of pictures with views of the North African desert.
The Sun Peeped o'er yon Southland Hills
Beneath The Snow Encumbered Branches
Evening at Finzean
The Road to Loch Maree
In some years he was represented with four or five works at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy . In addition, he carried out private assignments and also had to satisfy the constant demand of his agents. He loved painting outdoors and, given the harsh Scottish climate, used a small, wheeled, heated studio with large glass windows.
The sustained success of his interpretations of winter landscapes was less due to the localities depicted than to the captured mood. He gave some of his pictures quite unusual titles, in which he often tried the poetry of British poets such as Burns , Milton , Shakespeare and Gray . In an essay on Farquharson's conception of art, written in 1926, Walter Sickert compared him to Gustave Courbet , the great French painter of realism .
literature
- Marcus Halliwell: Highland Landscapes - Paintings of Scotland in the 19th Century. Garamond Publishers Ltd, London, 1990, ISBN 1-85583-001-9 , p. 80.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Farquharson, RA in the database of the Royal Academy of Arts , English, accessed on May 22, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farquharson, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1935 |
| Place of death | Finzean , Aberdeenshire |