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Thomas Fairland

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to produce a volume called "The book of animals drawn from nature" (C. Tilt, 1846). However, owing to the decline of lithography due to foreign competition and the vagaries of fashion, Fairland now devoted himself to portrait painting, and enjoyed the patronage of many eminent people including
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William Fairland, who it is thought was his brother, also practiced as a lithographer and executed "The Culprit detected" (after Robert Farrier - published 1831), "The Lovers Vigil" (after
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which stood in the entrance hall of the academy building. Turning his attention to
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Fairland showed an early interest in drawing and practiced from nature in
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in which he produced some very good works. Among these may be noted:
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He struggled however with money and ill-health, and died from
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Other subjects lithographed included "The Misers" (after
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and gained a silver medal for drawing from the cast of
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Index

lithographer
engraver
portrait painter

W. H. Hunt
Kensington Gardens
Royal Academy
Henry Fuseli
Hercules
line engraving
Charles Warren
lithography
Robert Farrier
The poacher's confederate
Charles Hancock
Abraham Cooper
Sir Edwin Landseer
William Henry Hunt
Virgin and Child
Raphael
Quentin Matsys
Napoleon crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David
Richard Westall
William Barraud
tuberculosis
Robert Smirke
Stephen, Leslie
"Fairland, Thomas" 
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