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HORATIO MACCULLOCH (1805-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MACCULLOCH (1805-1867)  , Scottish landscape painter, was See also:born in See also:Glasgow . He studied for a See also:year under See also:John See also:Knox, a Glasgow landscapist of some repute, was then engaged at Cumnock, See also:painting the ornamental lids of See also:snuff-boxes, and afterwards employed in See also:Edinburgh by Lizars, the engraver, to See also:colour the illustrations in See also:Selby's See also:British Birds and similar See also:works . Meanwhile he was working unweariedly from nature, greatly influenced in his See also:early practice by the See also:water-See also:colours of H . W . See also:Williams . Returning to Glasgow in some four or five years, he was employed on several large pictures for the decoration of a public See also:hall in St See also:George's See also:Place, and he did a little as a theatrical See also:scene-painter . About this See also:time he was greatly impressed with a picture by See also:Thomson of ' Duddingston . Gradually See also:MacCulloch asserted his individuality, and formed his own See also:style on a See also:close study of nature; his works See also:form an interesting See also:link between the old See also:world of Scottish landscape and the new . In 1829 MacCulloch first figured in the Royal Scottish See also:Academy's See also:exhibition, and year by year, till his See also:death on the 24th of See also:June 1867, he was a See also:regular exhibitor . In 1838 he was elected a member of the Scottish Academy . The subjects of his numerous landscapes were taken almost exclusively from Scottish scenery . Several works by MacCulloch were engraved by See also:William See also:Miller and William See also:Forrest, and a See also:volume of photographs from his landscapes, with an excellent See also:biographical See also:notice of the artist by See also:Alexander See also:Fraser, R.S.A., was published in Edinburgh in 1872 .

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