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John Faed, R.S.A. (31 August 1819 – 22 October 1902) was a Scottish
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Life

John was the eldest son of the six children of James Faed, tenant of Barlay Mill,
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, and Mary Faed, ''née'' McGeoch. Two other sons,
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, and
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, also became artists, as did his sister Susan. John began painting miniatures of local people when only nine years old. Until the age of 11, John attended Girthon Parish School. The ''Castle Douglas Weekly Visitor'' for 19 August 1831 recorded that at the examination of Girthon school "the company present were shown a beautiful and correct book of maps, executed by John Faed, as a specimen of his many and varied drawings, which often ere now have elicited the admiration of all who have seen them". He moved to
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in 1840 and in 1841 had his first exhibited work at the
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. In 1848 he is listed as a miniature painter living at 6 SW Circus Place in
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. Faed primarily painted religious, literary, and historical scenes. He exhibited at the
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and the
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almost continually. When he was President of the
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Fine Art Association in 1899, his portrait of ''Sir
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'' (painted when Faed was 36) was shown in the Dalbeattie Loan and Industrial Exhibition which took place in July and August that year. Faed also had a following in the United States. His ''Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton'' was the basis for a
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engraving by William Holl the Younger used to illustrate an article on
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in the '' Magazine of American History'' in 1880. His highly successful painting ''Shakespeare and his Friends at the Mermaid Tavern'' was sold to an American in 1851. His paintings, popular in Victorian Britain, can today be found in private and public collections, including the
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. In 1859 he helped
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raise the 1st Edinburgh (City) Artillery Volunteer Corps from among artists in the city and served as its lieutenant. He was an active member of the community where he finally made his home,
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. He helped to conceive and develop a number of community projects such as the Gatehouse of Fleet Clock Tower and
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, which was opened in August 1885 by his brother Thomas Faed, by then a celebrated
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. He exhibited at the RSA until 1895. Faed became seriously ill in the summer of 1902. He went to stay with his sister Susan Faed near Gatehouse of Fleet and died there on 22 October at the age of 83. He was buried beside his wife, Jane McDonald (d.1897), near Gatehouse in the Girthon parish churchyard. Susan was buried with him in 1909.http://www.gatehouse-folk.org.uk/detailpage.asp?d=149&ID=12 The known titles of his works amount to 278 items. Of these, 241 were hung in the
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, twenty of which were exhibited in the
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, and nineteen were exhibited in the Royal Academy only. The list is thought to be incomplete.


Gallery

File:Faed, Expulsion of Adam and Eve.jpg, ''Expulsion of Adam and Eve'',
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(ca. 1880) File:Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.jpg, ''Shakespeare and his Friends at the Mermaid Tavern'' (1851) File:Faed postumus and imogen.jpg, ''Postumus and Imogen'', a scene from Shakespeare's
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File:Portrait-of-george-washington-taking-the-salute-at-trenton-john-faed.jpg, ''Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton'' (1856) File:George Washington, engraving by Holl, after Faed, 1880.png, Portrait bust engraving by William Holl the Younger (1880)


Notes


References

* Steel, David I. A., ''John Faed RSA: The Gatehouse Years'', traces his life and the life of his family.


External links


John Faed at artcyclopedia.com

John Faed at artistsfootsteps.co.uk
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