John Faed

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".

In 1848 he is listed as a miniature painter living at 6 SW Circus Place in Stockbridge, Edinburgh.

When he was President of the Kirkcudbrightshire Fine Art Association in 1899, his portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (painted when Faed was 36) was shown in the Dalbeattie Loan and Industrial Exhibition which took place in July and August that year.

His paintings, popular in Victorian Britain, can today be found in private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Scotland.

He went to stay with his sister Susan Faed near Gatehouse of Fleet and died there on 22 October at the age of 83.