Joseph Farquharson

Joseph Farquharson RA ( born May 4, 1846 in Edinburgh, † April 15, 1935 in Finzean, Aberdeenshire ) was a Scottish painter, particularly appreciated for its snow landscapes with sheep as accessories, often in the morning light or at dusk. Many of his views represent the country in the vicinity of his birthplace dar.

Joseph Farquharson grew up on an estate in Finzean in north-east Scotland. A short time taught him the popular Scottish landscape painter Peter Graham, before he moved to the Edinburgh Academy Trustees and Life Schools of the Royal Scottish Academy. At the age of 14 years Farquharson presented at the Royal Scottish Academy from his first work. His first exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, he had in 1873; Since 1900 candidates; he was finally in 1915 a full member of the Academy.

1880 and in the years after Farquharson held in Paris, where he studied under the painter Emile Auguste Academy Carolus-Duran. In 1885 he undertook then a trip to Egypt, which was reflected in a series of images with North African desert views.

Beneath The Snow Encumbered Branches

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 led from private commissions and also had to satisfy the increasing demand of its agents. He loved to paint outdoors, and used to given the harsh Scottish climate, a small wheeled, heated studio with large glass windows.

The continuing success of his interpretations wintry landscapes was less attributable to the localities shown as the trapped spirits. He gave some of his pictures rather unusual title, which he often tried the poetry of British poets such as Burns, Milton, Shakespeare and Gray. In a 1926 essay written on Farquharson's conception of art compared Walter Sickert him with Gustave Courbet, the great French painter of realism.