DAVID FARQUHARSON A.R.A., A.R.S.A., R.S.W., R.O.I. (SCOTTISH 1840-1907)
LANGDALE, CUMBERLAND
£2,205
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Evening Sale: 08 June 2023 | From 18:00
Description
Signed and dated '89, signed with initials and inscribed verso, oil on canvas
Dimensions
41cm x 61cm (16in x 24in)
Footnote
Note: Like many nineteenth-century artists, David Farquharson’s career started as a trade apprentice. Whilst a youth he trained as a painter-decorator in Blairgowrie and upon completion of his apprenticeship he worked around Ireland and the south of Scotland, ultimately going into business with his brother. In his spare time he painted landscapes. Farquharson was entirely self-taught and his work demonstrates a continual improvement in quality, with later works (such as the present lots) being amongst his finest. His palette was inspired by the early work of Corot, as well as that of the Hague school, whose works were popular and widely-collected in Scotland at the time. Farquharson was an accomplished painter of changing light and weather, aided by loose and confident brushwork. His preferred subjects combined topographical components with social studies of locals around Scotland, northern England and Cornwall.