Background
Faed was born on the 8th of June 1826, in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, and was the brother of John Faed.
Faed was born on the 8th of June 1826, in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, and was the brother of John Faed.
Thomas Faed attended the Edinburgh College of Art.
Thomas Faed went to London three years later, was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861, and academician in 1864, and retired in 1893. He had much success as a painter of domestic genre, and had considerable executive capacity. Three of his pictures, The Silken Gown, Faults on Both Sides, and The Highland Mother are in the Tate Gallery and a further two, Highland Mary and The Reaper hang in the Aberdeen Art Gallery.
The Last of the Clan, completed in 1865 and arguably his best known work, is in the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow. He produced several versions of this work, including a smaller version now in The Fleming Collection.