{"id":1529,"date":"2014-07-05T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2017-02-10T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:51:25","slug":"paintings-of-john-fraser-farquhar-and-sarah-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/paintings-of-john-fraser-farquhar-and-sarah-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintings of John Fraser Farquhar and Sarah Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are paintings of my ancestors, John Fraser Farquhar (1821-1866) and Sarah Wilson (1823-1906). I have pictures of these but I have never seen the originals and I don&#8217;t know where they are. I would love to locate them. They were in the possession of Carolyn Farquhar and my aunt says they were donated to a museum somewhere. Here are the places that do not have them: Lehigh County Historical Society and the Allentown Art Museum. I have emails in to Lafayette College and the Michener Art Museum to see if they have the art in their collections.<\/p>\n<p>This first one is an oil painting. I don&#8217;t know who the artist is. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1536\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"boxer\" title=\"John Fraser Farquhar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1536\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12081-718x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Fraser Farquhar\" width=\"371\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12081-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12081-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12081.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Fraser Farquhar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These two were drawn reportedly by John Farquhar himself, a self-portrait and a drawing of his wife.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1533\" style=\"width: 1022px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"boxer\" title=\"John Fraser Farquhar and Sarah Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1209and1210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1209and1210.jpg\" alt=\"John Fraser Farquhar and Sarah Wilson\" width=\"1022\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1209and1210.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1209and1210-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Fraser Farquhar and Sarah Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Again, if you have any information on the whereabouts of these paintings, please leave a comment below, thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are paintings of my ancestors, John Fraser Farquhar (1821-1866) and Sarah Wilson (1823-1906). I have pictures of these but I have never seen the originals and I don&#8217;t know where they are. I would love to locate them. They were in the possession of Carolyn Farquhar and my aunt says they were donated to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,13,21,18],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-news","tag-farquhar","tag-fraser","tag-paintings","tag-wilson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-oF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4468,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/will-the-real-john-farquhar-please-stand-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":1529,"position":0},"title":"Will the Real John Farquhar Please Stand Up?","author":"Karen","date":"March 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"If you research your family history long enough, you'll come to understand the thrill of finding a long-lost photograph of an ancestor. 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