HORATIO

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