Thomas Faed

[3] He received his art education in the school of design, Edinburgh and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849.

He went to London three years later, was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861, and academician in 1864, and retired in 1893.

[4] In 1850 he was living at 16 Comely Bank in north Edinburgh with his brother James Faed, an engraver.

The Last of the Clan, completed in 1865 and arguably his best known work, is in the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow.

[8] Two other celebrated pictures are The Motherless Bairn and Scott and His Literary Friends at Abbotsford.