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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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