Thomas Faed
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Thomas Faed (June 8, 1826 - August 17, 1900) was a Scottish painter born in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, and was the brother of John Faed.
He received his art education in the school of design, Edinburgh and was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849. He came to London three years later, was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1861, and academician in 1864, and retired in 1893. He had much success as a painter of domestic genre, and had considerable executive capacity.
Three of his pictures, The Silken Gown, Faults on Both Sides, and The Highland Mother are in the Tate Gallery. He died in London in 1900.
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