David Farquharson
{{Short description|Scottish painter (1839–1907)}}
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David Farquharson {{Post-nominals|post-noms=ARA}} (17 November 1839 – 12 July 1907) was a Scottish painter.
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Life
Farquharson was a Scottish landscapist. He was born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, and lived there until he moved to Edinburgh about 1872. He was, to a great extent, a self-taught artist. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy for the first time in 1868, and in 1882 was elected an associate, but in 1886 he settled in London until 1894.File:Farquharson David Fishing 1879-85.jpgHe removed to Sennen Cove, Cornwall, but often revisited Scotland. His landscapes attracted considerable attention and he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877 to 1904.
This led to his election as Associate in 1905 at the age of 66.{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Farquharson, David|volume=2|first=David Storrar |last=Meldrum}}
He painted the Highland hills and moors and peat mosses, river valleys and views in England and Holland, in all sorts of atmospheric conditions, in a tonal palette reminiscent of early Corot.Christopher Wood, Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 2008
File:The Herring Fleet Leaving the Dee by David Farquharson - David Farquharson - ABDAG000605.jpg
On 12 July 1907, he died at Balmore.
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- {{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33086|title=Farquharson, David (1839–1907)|last=Soden|first=Joanna|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33086|access-date=4 February 2010}}
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External links
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- [http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5666 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections]
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Category:People from Blairgowrie and Rattray
Category:19th-century Scottish painters
Category:Scottish male painters
Category:20th-century Scottish painters
Category:Associates of the Royal Academy
Category:19th-century Scottish male artists
Category:20th-century Scottish male artists
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