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5 unusual facts about Horatio McCulloch


Horatio McCulloch

During one of his trips to Skye he met his future wife, Marcella McLellan of Gillean, near the township of Tarskavaig.

He undertook regular summer sketching tours of the West Highlands, completing the sketches as paintings as back in his studio.

It is known that he had several dogs of the Skye Terrier breed at his Edinburgh home and it is possible that he brought them from Skye with his wife.

These paintings celebrate the romantic scenery of the Scottish Highlands and evoke a magnificent sense of scale, emphasizing the dramatic grandeur.

His own art collection was evidence of his admiration for 17th-century Dutch painters, for J. M. W. Turner and Richard Wilson and for contemporaries such as Clarkson Stanfield.



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