grandeur. Horatio McCulloch had by his death in 1867 created the essential iconography of the Highlands. From historical point of view, as the Scottish Lowlands became more urbanised, the distinctiveness of Scotland came to be represented through the Highlands. McCulloch's work was part of a process of distancing the relationship of people to land in the Highlands. In the Victorian period the Highlands to be defined as a wilderness instead of a populated space and many communities were cleared from the land in favor of large sheep farms and sporting interests. In essence, this romantic view of Scottish scenery was brought to a climax by Horatio McCulloch. Several works by McCulloch were engraved by William Miller and William Forrest, and volume of photographs from his landscapes, with an excellent biographical notice of the artist by Alexander Fraser, R.S.A., was published in Edinburgh in 1872. His best known works include: Inverlochy Castle (1857) Landscape Evening (c1860) Glencoe, Argyllshire (1864) Loch Katrine (1866) References Sources Sheena Smith (1988). Horatio McCulloch 1805-1867. Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries. Murdo MacDonald (2000). Scottish Art. Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, pp 104–106. Alexander Fraser (1872). The Life and Works of Horatio McCulloch. John Morrison (2003). Painting the Nation: Identity and Nationalism in Scottish Painting, 1800-1920. Edinburgh University Press. David Irwin, Francina Irwin (1975). Scottish Painters: at Home and Abroad 1700-1900. Faber and Faber, London, pp 353–357 External links McCulloch Family Research Photo of Horatio MacCulloch Horatio McCulloch's works in National Galleries of Scotland Exhibition at Tate, Highlands and Glens Land of the Mountain and the Flood Scottish landscape painters Artists from Glasgow 1805 births 1867 deaths Royal Scottish Academicians Burials at Warriston Cemetery 19th-century British painters