David Farquharson

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David Farquharson (17 November 1839 – 12 July 1907) was a Scottish painter.

Farquharson was a Scottish landscape painter. He was born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, and lived there until he moved to Edinburgh about 1872. He was, to a great extent, a self-taught artist. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy for the first time in 1868, and in 1882 was elected an associate, but in 1886 he settled in London until 1894. He then removed to Sennen Cove, Cornwall, but often revisited Scotland. His landscapes attracted considerable attention and he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877 to 1904. This led to his election as ARA in 1905 at the age of 66. He painted the Highland hills and moors and peat mosses, river valleys and views in England and Holland, in all sorts of atmospheric conditions, in a tonal palette reminiscent of early Corot.^[1][2]

Footnotes

1. ^ Christopher Wood, Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 2008
2. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement 2, Volume II

References

• Soden, Joanna (2004). "Farquharson, David (1839–1907)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33086. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33086. Retrieved 4 February 2010.  Subscription or UK public library membership required

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Name	Farquharson, David
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Date of birth	17 November 1839
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Date of death	12 July 1907
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