British Fine Art by John Faed RSA

Bring timeless elegance to the room with this  poignant and sentimental art work by Scottish artist John Faed.

The work depicts a young child naively consoling a distressed woman, perhaps her mother who sits crouching, her head turned away from the viewer.

The work is mounted in a substantial heavy gilt frame which is original to the art.

Medium: Oil

Date Circa: 1850

Overall size: 50 x 42 cm

Visible painting: 29 x 22 cm

About John Faed  (1819-1902)

As a young boy John Faed displayed exceptional artistic talent as a portraitist. Despite his father’s objections towards a career as an artist, Faed moved to Edinburgh in 1839 to attend the Trustees’ Academy where he studied life drawing and painting. He began to move away from portraiture and painted more subject pictures. Faed chose scenes from William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and the Bible, but specialised in Scottish subjects such as those popularised by the novels of Sir Walter Scott. He was elected an associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1847, and a full member in 1851. In 1857 he spent four months travelling in the Middle East, where he collected numerous props to incorporate into his Eastern and biblical pictures. Apart from this trip and a period in London from 1864-69, Faed remained in Scotland and passed in 1902.