Thomas Faed

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1826–1900

Thomas Faed RSA was a Scottish painter who is said to have done for Scottish art what Robert Burns did for Scottish song. == Life == Faed was born on 8 June 1825 at Barlay Mill in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, and was the brother of the artists James Faed, John Faed and Susan Faed. He received his art education in the school of design, Edinburgh and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849. He went to London three years later, was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861, and academician in 1864, and retired in 1893. He had much success as a painter of domestic genre, and had considerable executive capacity.

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