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Afterglow

Artist (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1846 - 1935)
Date1912
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 152 cm, Width: 106.8 cm
Frame: Height: 191.9 cm, Width: 146.5 cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1931 by G F Rose.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationOn Display - Gallery 09
Object numberABDAG002555
About MeJoseph Farquharson's family were landed gentry who had occupied the lands of Finzean since the sixteenth century. The estate of Finzean lies on Deeside, to the west of Aberdeen, in the very heartland of Scotland. It is a breathtaking landscape of mountain and moorland, for which the Scottish Highlands are famous.

Farquharson made his reputation painting winter scenes. 'Afterglow', painted in the Forest of Birse on the Finzean estate, captures the pink glow in the evening sky and the bluish shadows cast on the snow-covered woodland. As the quiet of evening descends, rabbits make their twilight foray, oblivious to the painter's presence.

Adopted by Mags and Andrew Watson.

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More About Me
Farquharson was a master at capturing the pink glow of winter skies in the Aberdeenshire afternoon.
Exhibitions
Christmas Card
Raphael Tuck & Sons
1900s
Melting Snow, Birse
Alexander Sillars Burns
Snow in Mayford
Hilda Chancellor Pope
1964
Midwinter
Gwenda Morgan
1962
Sunshine and Shadow
Stanley Royle
1926
Jedburgh Abbey
Sir George Reid
1876
Friday Market, Castlegate, Aberdeen
George Russell Gowans
1882
Snow Shovellers, New York
Clare Leighton
1929
Winter At Balgownie
David J Alexander
'Snow Ball' Ring
Nora Fok
2000
Christmas Card
Late 19th - early 20th century
A Winter Morning
by Alberto Morrocco
Alberto Morrocco
1951
Day's Dying Glow - Study
Joseph Farquharson
c. 1873
Lochnagar
William Smith
Day's Dying Glow
Sir Frank Short
1890
New Year Card
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Late 19th - early 20th century
Woodland Scene by Joseph Farquharson
Joseph Farquharson
Snowstorm:Steamboat Off A Harbour Mouth by Joseph Mallord William Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Wilderness
Herbert Leslie Greener