12 Facts About Horatio McCulloch

Horatio McCulloch, sometimes written MacCulloch or M'Culloch, was a Scottish landscape painter.

Horatio McCulloch 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 for about one year alongside Daniel Macnee and at first earned his living as a decorative painter.

Horatio McCulloch 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.

Horatio McCulloch returned to Glasgow in 1827, and was employed on several large pictures for the decoration of a public hall in St George's Place, and he did a little as a theatrical scene-painter.

In 1829 McCulloch first figured in the Royal Scottish Academy's exhibition.

On his election as full Academician of the Scottish Academy in 1838, Horatio McCulloch settled in Edinburgh and soon became a prominent figure in the artistic life of the capital and a prolific contributor to the Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions.

Horatio McCulloch died at "St Colme" in Trinity, Edinburgh on 24 June 1867.

Horatio McCulloch's monument was carved by the Edinburgh sculptor, David Watson Stevenson.

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

Horatio McCulloch had by his death in 1867 created the essential iconography of the Highlands.

Horatio McCulloch's work was part of a process of distancing the relationship of people to land in the Highlands.