Joseph Farquharson RA (British, 1846-1935)
The Joyless Winter Day
watercolour and gouache
50.5 x 85cm (19 7/8 x 33 7/16in).
painted circa 1883
Footnotes:
Provenance
With McEwan Fine Art, Aberdeen.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above in December 1981); thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery; London, The Fine Art Society; Edinburgh, The Fine Art Society, Joseph Farquharson of Finzean, a travelling exhibition, 1985, no. 18.

The present work is a smaller version of the oil of the same name housed in the Tate collection. This oil being the first of Farquharson's great snow paintings, and the present lot also highlights his capabilities in capturing the snow, light and atmosphere of a hard winter's day in the field.