Horatio McCulloch

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1805–1867

Horatio McCulloch, sometimes written MacCulloch or M'Culloch, was a Scottish landscape painter. == Life == He was born in Glasgow 9 November 1805 the son of Alexander McCulloch, a cotton merchant, and his wife, Margaret Watson. Horatio McCulloch was trained in the studio of the Glasgow landscape painter John Knox (1778, 1845) for about one year alongside Daniel Macnee (1806, 1882) and at first earned his living as a decorative painter. He was then engaged at Cumnock, painting the ornamental lids of snuffboxes, and afterwards employed in Edinburgh by William Home Lizars, the engraver, to colour the illustrations in Prideaux John Selby's British Birds and similar works. After he moved to Edinburgh in 1825, he began painting in the tradition of Alexander Nasmyth.

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