Artist Biography

Charles Farrer (1839-1891), English

 

     A landscape and genre painter, Thomas Farrer was born in London, England and studied there with John Ruskin. From 1860 to 1884, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design and from 1862 to 1868, exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1872, he returned to England, where he lived until his death in 1891.

     Thomas Charles Farrer, after whom my boy Tom was named, was a charming man, a favorite wherever he went. He was a fine and sensitive artist, a delightful talker with a keen sense of humor, and a dear companion to us children. He was very good looking, and always seemed more like a brother than a Father. He took me with him several times when he went to Burnham Beeches to paint. We stayed at a little cottage on the common, and I used to wander about the woods by myself most of the day, making up stories, etc. Nan and I were both engaged during the last year of his life, but he died before any of us were married. I often thought, during the fourteen years that Phil and I lived in Spain, how he would have loved to have stayed with us and painted in that land of glorious colour and romance.
 

Charles Farrer Oil Paintings Reproductions:

Gone ! Gone ! 50cm x 80cm (20" x 32") $239

 

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