Thomas Charles Farrer

Mount Holyoke, 1865

Mount Tom, 1865

Thomas Charles Farrer (born December 16, 1838 in London , † June 16, 1891 ibid) was an English painter and painting teacher who also worked in the United States . One of his students was Francis Lathrop .

Live and act

He learned in the painting school of John Ruskin and came to New York in 1858, where he was a successful painting teacher . He served in the Union Army during the Civil War . In 1869 he returned to London.

He exhibited Field-Lily and Twilight on the Hudson (1867) at the National Academy in New York City ; Beach at Hastings and English Farm (1871); Caernarvon Castle, Wales and Interior of St. Mark's, Venice (1872); Sunset (1875); Yorkshire Trout Stream , Coming through the Lock , and Rochester Castle (1878). He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.

family

Farrer's brother Henry Farrer was a painter and etcher . He came to New York in 1863, where he found recognition as a watercolorist and landscape painter . He was a member of the New York Etching Club and the American Society of Painters in Watercolors . Henry's major works were On the East River , A Hot Day , A Calm Afternoon , Sunset, Coast of Maine , The Silent Tongue , The Old Homestead at Twilight and November Day . He participated in the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia with A Windy Day and The Old House on the Hill and in the Paris Exhibition in 1878 with A Quiet Pool .

literature

Farrar, Thomas Charles . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 2 : Crane - Grimshaw . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 419 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Lawrence B. Siddall: Thomas Farrer and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in America . (PDF) on lawrencesiddall.com

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Charles Farrer b. 16 Dec 1838 London, Middlesex, England d. 16 Sep 1891 Hampstead, London. In: geneagraphie.com. Geneagraphy - Families all over the world, March 14, 2002, accessed on October 12, 2015 (different death date September).
^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-19-977378-5 . ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Farrer, Thomas Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English painter and painting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	June 16, 1891
Place of death	London

[1] Thomas Charles Farrer b. 16 Dec 1838 London, Middlesex, England d. 16 Sep 1891 Hampstead, London. In: geneagraphie.com. Geneagraphy - Families all over the world, March 14, 2002, accessed on October 12, 2015 (different death date September).

[2] Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-19-977378-5 . ( online )