Joseph Farquharson

Joseph Farquharson DL RA (4 May 1846 – 15 April 1935) was a Scottish painter, chiefly of landscapes in Scotland often including animals.

Joseph Farquharson combined a long and prolific career as a painter with his inherited role as a Scottish laird.

Graham, a popular Scottish Landscape painter, remained a close friend and his influence on Farquharson is unmistakable.

Much like other leading Aberdeen artists John Philip and William Dyce, he bypassed Edinburgh and Glasgow in favour of London in order to win a wider audience and patrons.

He extolled Farquharson's tension and realism and criticized the pretension of his polar opposites, the Bloomsbury Group, whose writ he said "fortunately does not run in the North of Scotland".

Farquharson had constructed a painting hut on wheels, complete with a stove and large glass window for observing the landscape.

[5] Farquharson inherited the title of Laird in 1918 after the death of his elder brother Robert, a doctor and MP for West Aberdeenshire.

In 2008 the original 1901 painting Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches was found in a house a woman had bought in the 1960s from a Bond Street dealer for £1,450.

Nick Curnow, a director at the auctioneers, form said that the unnamed seller was moving to a smaller house and would not have room for the painting.