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Lot 11

Joseph Farquharson RA
(British, 1846-1935)
Salmon Fishing on the Dee

11 October 2023, 14:00 BST
Edinburgh

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Joseph Farquharson RA (British, 1846-1935)

Salmon Fishing on the Dee
signed and dated 'J Farquharson 1902' (lower right)
oil on canvas
81 x 121.8cm (31 7/8 x 48in).

Footnotes

Provenance
With Harrods, London, 1947.

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1902, no. 441.

Literature
Archdeacon William MacDonald Sinclair,The Art of Joseph Farquharson, A.R.A., special Christmas number of The Art Annual, 1912, p. 27, illus. p. 15.

This lively depiction of the drama of landing a catch, and the strength and patience required to be a skilled fishermen, proved to be commercially very successful. Frost & Reed Ltd. published an engraving in the following year, 1903.

Whilst training in Paris during the early 1880s, under the tutelage of Carolus Duran, Farquharson was encouraged to visit the forest of Fontainebleau to practice painting en plein air. The instinct to immerse himself in his subject came naturally to Farquharson. He continued to work in this way later in his career, by using a number of mobile painting huts, furnished with stoves, with which he travelled around his estate at Finzean in Royal Deeside.

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