1-273-569 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Thomas Faed, Royal Academician, 1880. He studied at the Edinburgh School of Design, and in 1849 was elected as an associate of the Scottish Academy. The year 1851 saw him exhibit for the first time at the London Royal Academy. The following year he settled in London permanently . His dramatic, and sometimes sentimental depictions, of Scottish life appealed enormously to Victorian taste, and he became one of the most popular painters of the time. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861 and a full member in 1864. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).