Faed

Faed, THOMAS, R.A., brother of the preceding, was born at Burley Mill, 8th June 1826, and in 1842 began his regular art studies in Edinburgh. At the Trustees' Academy he took several prizes; the first picture he exhibited was a water-colour of an incident from the Old English Baron. Shortly after, he discovered his true strength in 'Reading the Bible,' a simple subject from Scottish peasant life, and he was made an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849, in which year he produced an interesting work entitled 'Scott and his Friends at Abbotsford,' which was engraved by his brother James Faed. In 1852 he removed to London, where his 'Mitherless Bairn,' exhibited in 1855, a popular and taking composition, was declared by some critics to be 'the picture of the season.' Of his subsequent works we need mention only 'Home and the Homeless,' 'The First Break in the Family,' 'Sunday in the Backwoods,' 'From Dawn to Sunset,' 'Baith Faither and Mither,' and 'The Last o' the Clan.' Faed was made A.R.A. in 1859, R.A. in 1864, and an honorary member of the Vienna Royal Academy in 1875. He died in August 1900.