Scottish Pictures: Edinburgh Assembly Rooms

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Lot 3
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Thomas Faed, R.A 1826-1900

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Thomas Faed, R.A
  • the first step
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

James Horne Esq., by 1852

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1851, no. 811;
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1852, no. 47

Literature

Mary McKerrow, The Faeds, A Biography, 1982, p. 152

Catalogue Note

The First Step was one of Faed's earliest exhibits at the Royal Academy, exhibited in 1851 with Cottage Piety and an illustration to Auld Robin Gray.