John Faed
Album Containing 37 Drawings: Compositional Sketches, Figure Studies and Three Landscape Drawings
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artist:
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title:Album Containing 37 Drawings: Compositional Sketches, Figure Studies and Three Landscape Drawings
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pen, brown ink and wash (with one watercolour and eight pencil drawings) on paper
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measurements:Various
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object type:
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credit line:J.A. Faed Gift 1952
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accession number:D 4631
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John Faed
John Faed
As a young boy John Faed displayed exceptional artistic talent as a portraitist. Despite his father’s objections towards a career as an artist, Faed moved to Edinburgh in 1839 to attend the Trustees’ Academy where he studied life drawing and painting. He began to move away from portraiture and...