The New Student's Reference Work/Faed, Thomas

Faed (fād), Thomas, a Scottish painter of renown, was born at Burley Mill, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, on June 8, 1826. He was made an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849, an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861, an Academician in 1864, and in 1875 was elected an honorary member of the Vienna Royal Academy. Among his celebrated pictures are The Motherless Bairn, The Last of the Clan and Scott and His Literary Friends at Abbotsford.