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From: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Sargent may have painted this portrait
at his London studio but he did visit Aberdeen as he was a good friend
of local artist Joseph Farquharson. John Fyfe was born at 'Goodhope', Bucksburn
in 1830. He owned granite quarries at Blackburn and Kemnay. From the Kemnay
quarry came the stone for the Town House and Marischal College. He was
probably the most influential granite quarrier of his generation and an
immense presence in the Scottish industry. He married Barbara Stevenson
in 1868, had a family of eight daughters and two sons. He had built and
lived in Beechgrove House, which until recently demolished, housed the
BBC. He died in 1903.
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