A celebrated and successful landscape painter, Joseph Farquharson is known particularly for his dramatic Scottish landscapes and scenes of sheep in glittering, technicolour snow.
He inherited his family estate of Finzean in Aberdeenshire in 1918, following the death of his brother, though he had already lived and painted there for many years. Mostly, he painted ‘en plein air’ in the more rugged, distant reaches of the landscape his family owned.