Horatio McCulloch, 1805-1867
About this artwork
This albumen print was produced as a frontispiece for the book by Alexander Fraser ‘Scottish Landscape. The Works of Horatio McCulloch, R.S.A., photographed by Thomas Annan’. McCulloch, from Glasgow, was influenced by John Knox's luminous paintings, Sir Walter Scott's vivid prose and the expressive pictures by John Thompson of Duddingston, Edinburgh. McCulloch's summer sketching tours of the West Highlands inspired some of his most powerful paintings, which were created back in the studio. His landscapes combine a magnificent sense of scale with an emotionally charged atmosphere, and contributed to the popular Victorian image of the Highlands. McCulloch also recorded the crumbling houses of Edinburgh's Old Town, and was among the first artists to focus on the urban and industrial landscape of Scotland.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Thomas Annan (1829 - 1887) Scottish
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title:Horatio McCulloch, 1805-1867
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date created:About 1860s
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:16.40 x 12.60 cm
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credit line:Presented by J. Kent Richardson, 1944
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accession number:PGP 321
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Thomas Annan
Thomas Annan
Having begun his career as a lithographic writer and engraver on a local newspaper in Fife, Thomas Annan set up a studio as a professional photographer in 1855. He founded his own photographic printing works in Hamilton in 1859 and by 1862 had begun to establish a reputation for photographing works...