Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900

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From the description of Letter : St. John's Wood, to unknown correspondent, 1892 Sept. 7. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28268735

Thomas Faed, Scottish painter.

From the description of Thomas Faed manuscript material : 15 items, 1892-1895 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 217276892

From the guide to the Thomas Faed manuscript material : 15 items, 1892-1895, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.)

Thomas Faed was born in Kirkcudbright on 8 June 1826. He was the brother of the artists George Faed (1830-1852), John Faed (1819-1902), James Faed (1821-1911), and Susan Bell Faed (1827-1909). Thomas showed talent as a painter already as a boy but at the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a draper in Castle Douglas. Painting was too strong however and he went to Edinburgh to work on miniatures for his brother. He entered the Trustees Academy at the Royal Scottish Academy, Mound, Edinburgh and was taught by Sir William Allan (1782-1850) and Thomas Duncan (1807-1845). At the age of eighteen he exhibited A scene from the 'Old English Baron' at the RSA. His greatest strength was the painting of scenes of rural and Scottish domestic life. In the 1840s he illustrated Scott's Heart of Midlothian . Between the 1850s and the 1890s he exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1855 his The mitherless bairn received great acclaim and is now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. He is represented at the Tate, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Aberdeen, and Glasgow, and at Royal Holloway College, the Ashmolean, and in Montreal, Vancouver, Baroda, and Durban. Thomas Faed R.A. H.R.S.A. died in St. John's Wood, London, on 17 August 1900. His son John Francis Faed (1859-1904) was an accomplished oil and watercolour painter of seascapes.

From the guide to the Letters of Thomas Faed R.A. (1826-1900), 1851-1890, (Edinburgh University Library)

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referencedIn Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk) Houghton Library
referencedIn Letters of Thomas Faed R.A. (1826-1900), 1851-1890 Edinburgh University Library
referencedIn Bennoch, Francis, 1812-1890. Papers, 1839-1890. University of Iowa Libraries
creatorOf Faed, Thomas, 1826-1900. Letter : St. John's Wood, to unknown correspondent, 1892 Sept. 7. Bryn Mawr College, Mariam Coffin Canaday Library
creatorOf Broadley, Alexander Meyrick, 1847-1916. Collection of autograph letters, ca. 1822-ca. 1902. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Faed, Thomas, 1826-1900. Letter: [1863?], to Sir William Fettes Douglas / Thomas Faed. University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library
creatorOf Thomas Faed manuscript material : 15 items, 1892-1895 The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.
referencedIn Faed, Thomas : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
creatorOf H. Graves and Co. Letters received, ca. 1845-1910. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Faed, Thomas, 1826-1900. Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified woman, [n.d.]. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Letters of Thomas Faed R.A. (1826-1900), 1851-1890 Edinburgh University Library
creatorOf Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900. Thomas Faed manuscript material : 15 items, 1892-1895 New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf Faed, Thomas, 1826-1900. Letter: [1830?], to James Drummond / Thomas Faed. University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library
referencedIn Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk). Houghton Library
creatorOf Bennoch, Francis, 1812-1890. Correspondence, 1838-1886. University of Iowa Libraries
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correspondedWith Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 person
associatedWith Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915- person
associatedWith Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. person
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Death 1900-08-17

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