Thomas Faed

Faults on Both Sides

1861

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

Not on display

Artist: Thomas Faed 1826–1900
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 673 x 552 mm
frame: 1023 x 892 x 116 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
Reference: N01526

Display caption

In this painting a couple sit in silence next to their marital bed, unable to communicate after a row. The man bites the handle of his walking stick in frustration. The woman gazes stonily ahead and twists a handkerchief to control her anger.Thomas Faed was a Scottish artist who specialised in genre scenes based on Highland subjects. The man here is thought to be a self-portrait.

Gallery label, July 2007

Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you.

Explore

architecture(42,289)
- features(9,152)
  - mantelpiece(36)
emotions, concepts and ideas(16,928)
- emotions and human qualities(5,367)
  - contemplation(146)
interiors(4,585)
- domestic(1,835)
  - interior - non-specific(851)
nature(46,521)
- animals: mammals(5,149)
  - dog - non-specific(1,119)
objects(23,668)
- furnishings(3,127)
  - curtain(258)
- clothing and personal items(6,037)
  - cane / walking stick(132)
  - hat, bonnet(215)
people(35,852)
- actions: postures and motions(9,287)
  - sitting(3,395)
- adults(23,437)
  - man(10,873)
  - woman(9,319)
society(35,458)
- sex and relationships(5,332)
  - couple(1,300)

You might like

Abraham Solomon Waiting for the Verdict

1857
Thomas Faed Highland Mother

exhibited 1870
John Robertson Reid A Country Cricket Match

1878
Thomas Faed The Silken Gown

1860 or 63
Briton Riviere Sympathy

c.1878
Sir William Quiller Orchardson Her Mother’s Voice

exhibited 1888
Erskine Nicol The Emigrants

1864
Abraham Solomon Not Guilty (The Acquittal)

exhibited 1857
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt The North-West Passage

1874

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
Frederic George Stephens Mother and Child

c.1854

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
Sir William Quiller Orchardson The First Cloud

1887

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
James Collinson Home Again

1856

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
William Maw Egley Omnibus Life in London

1859

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
William Powell Frith The Derby Day

1856–8
Arthur Boyd Houghton Punch and Judy

c.1860