John Wesley Faulkner (1869 – 1940): A Painter of Scottish Landscapes and Rural Life John Wesley Faulkner was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1869, into a family steeped in artistic tradition. His father, William Faulkner Sr., was a portrait painter himself, fostering an early appreciation for visual representation and meticulous observation—qualities that would profoundly shape Faulkner’s artistic vision. Growing up amidst the Victorian era's fascination with Romanticism and Realism, he absorbed influences from artists like Albert Brumel and Frederic Church, whose depictions of dramatic land…