FAED

(fad), John, R.S.A., artist, born in Kirkeudbrightshire in 1820, died in 1902. He showed artistio talent at an early age, and in 184i went to Edinburgh to study. Some years later he acquired a considerable reputation, and was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1851. Among his principal works are: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries; An Incident of Scottish Justice; The Morning after Flodden; A Wappenshaw; two series of drawings illustrating The Cotter’s Saturday Night and Z'he Soldier’s Return; John Ander 374 FAED son, My Jo; Auld Mare Maggie; The ee oe git) Daughter; The Hiring aur. FAEb, Thomas, R.A., younger brother of the preceding, born at the same place in 1826, died in 1900. He studied in Edinburgh, where at an early age he became known as a clever painter of rustic subjects. In 1852 he settled in London, where he won a high reputation. The subjects he painted are for the most part domestic or pathetic, and in these he invented and told his own story, and that with a succe that emulates Wilkie. Among his principal works are: Sir Walter Scott and his Friends (1849), The Mither le Bairn (1855), The First Break in the Family (1857), Sunday in the Backwoods (1859), His Only Pair (1860), From Dawn_ to Sunset (1861), The Last o’ the Clan (1865). A number of Faed’s works have been engraved in large size, and have been very popular.