Joseph Farquharson

The Joyless Winter Day

exhibited 1883

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Artist
Joseph Farquharson 1847–1935
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 1041 x 1803 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1906
Reference
N01626

Display caption

Despite blizzard conditions, this picture was actually painted in the open air, albeit from the relative comfort of the artist's specially contructed mobile painting hut, which contained a stove. This enabled Farquharson to capture the remarkably realistic effects of a snow storm. The sheep, however, were false, fabricated in plaster by a local sculptor. Farquharson was famed for his Scottish snow scenes, and excepting 1914, sent a new one to the Royal Academy every year between 1894 and 1925. This was the first in the series. Farquharson combined a career as an artist with his inheritied responsibility as laird of the Finzean estate in Aberdeenshire, where many of his landscapes were painted.

Gallery label, September 2004

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