Horatio McCulloch

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

Life

McCulloch began his career as a " house painter ", and then to take along with Daniel Macnee and William Leighton Leitch lessons with John Knox ( 1878-1845 ). He then moved in with Leitch to Edinburgh, where they colored prints for works such as Prideaux John Selby's " British Birds ". McCulloch remained four or five years in the city and was during this time to the work of Hugh William Williams and John Thomson attention that should influence his later artistic development.

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

McCulloch left Scotland only once in a study tour of Wales, the Lake District and Derbyshire. Otherwise, he worked mainly in the Western Highlands and Islands. He often made ​​sketches in free nature, which he worked out in the studio later. The prints created by its templates contributed with to make the Scottish Highlands popular.

In the Royal Scottish Academy, he exhibited 198 works and was considered one of the leading Scottish landscape painter. 1862 scored one of his paintings at a price of 400 pounds; perhaps his most famous work is the view of Loch Katrine (Perth Art Gallery ).

Loch Fad, Isle of Bute, 1844

Inverlochy Castle, 1857