The Garden, Finzean House, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire

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Joseph Farquharson, R.A. (1846-1935)
The Garden, Finzean House, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
indistinctly signed 'J Farquharson' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'Joseph Farquharson R.A./Finzean, Aboyne/7203 "The Garden"' (on a fragmentary label on the reverse of the frame)
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Frost and Reed, Bristol, 10 September 1920, no. 1847.
Frost and Reed, Christie's, London, 9 December 1921, lot 89 (70 gns to Sampson).
with McEwan Gallery, Aberdeenshire.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1920, no. 660 as 'A Scotch garden'.

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Lot Essay

Farquharson was born in Edinburgh, the son of a doctor and amateur artist. He studied with the landscape painter Peter Graham before enrolling at the Trustees' Academy and the RSA Life Class. From 1880 he spent three or four winters in Paris at the atelier of Carolus-Duran and exhibited at the Salon. The subject of the present picture is the garden at Finzean, his Aberdeenshire family home in the Dee Valley.

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