John Faed
Scottish painter, 1820–1902
During the 1850s he received two commissions from the Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland for illustrations to Robert Burns, including Tam O’Shanter (1856). A Wappenschaw (1863; Edinburgh, Offices of the NT Scotland), an ambitious work depicting a feudal shooting contest with some 40 figures. It reveals his compositional weaknesses, due perhaps to his miniaturist training. In 1864 John followed his brother Thomas Faed to London. In later life John was free to indulge his early ambition to become a history painter. He settled at Gatehouse in 1880.
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Scottish painter and etcher, 1865–1945
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Scottish painter, printmaker, and illustrator, 1880–1969
British painter, etcher, and draftsman, 1886–1966