JOHN MACKIE FALCONER
(1820-1903)
Bearded Man in Tall Hat and Long Coat
Poster for the School of Watercolor Society
Young Man In White Apron
Born in Edinburgh, 1820. He came to America in 1836, and has since been engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York, devoting his leisure time to painting in oil and water-colors, exhibiting frequently at the National Academy, of which he is an Honorary Member. He was one of the early members of the Water-Color Society, and has been Treasurer of the Artists' Fund Society for many years. Among his works exhibited at different times may be mentioned, "Hoboken Meadows in 1852, looking south," "Newsboy," "Waiting," "Bird- Trapping," "The Old Hotel Hurley," "Prickly Pear in Blossom," "Shakspere's Birthplace," "The Oldest House in St. Louis," "Albert Diirer's House, Nuremberg," etc., in water-colors. In oils he has exhibited "Aussig River," "Gray Summer Morn," "The Birthplace of the Author of 'Home, Sweet Home,' " "Washington's Headquarters," "October Snow," "Spring," and "Autumn at Mount Clair, New Jersey," and many more.
Artists of the Nineteenth Century; Biographical Sketches. By Clara Erskine Clement & Laurence Hutton, 1879.