Details

Name

Horatio McCulloch

Brief Biography

1805 - 1867, British / Scottish

Occupation

Artist

Description

Horatio McCulloch was employed as a scene painter in Glasgow’s Theatre Royal and received tuition in landscape painting from John Knox. He worked briefly for the engraver Lizars, colouring prints, and in Cumnock as a decorator of snuff boxes, before embarking on his own as a landscape painter. He lived in Hamilton 1835-8, but settled in Edinburgh thereafter. He was one of the first artists to seek out the wild, rugged parts of Scotland and developed a style of painting her scenery in a way which is seen as typically Scottish. Beauty spots such as Loch Lomond, the Trossachs, Glencoe, the Cuillins of Skye and Loch Maree have all been immortalized by his brush.