Genre (mostly scenes set in Highland cottages)
- Words of Comfort [Cottage Piety]
- From Dawn Till Sunset , 1860
- His Only Pair (initial sketch)
- His Only Pair (print reproduction)
- Study of the interior for His Only Pair
- Pot-luck, 1866
- The First Sunbeam, 1858
- Forgiven, 1874
- The School Board in the Cottage
- West Highland Cottage Interior
- A Wee Bit Fractious, 1871
- As Happy as the Day Is Long, 1873
- The Rustic Toilet, 1861
- The Last of the Clan, 1865
Scenes of extreme poverty
- From Hand to Mouth — He Was One of the Few Who Would Not Beg
- Worn Out (1867, formerly Forbes Magazine Collection)
Single Figures, mostly women
- Evangeline
- Granny M'Laughan
- Lucy’s Flittin’
- Highland Mary, 1856
- Thoughts of Home
- The Fiddler’s Adieu
- The Crofter's Daughter
Couples and Courting
Landscapes
Works with no images on this site
- The Mitherless Bairn (1855, Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton)
- Home for the Homeless, 1856
- The First Break in the Family, 1856
- Sunday in the Backwoods, 1859
- My Ain Fireside, 1859
- Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before , 1860
- Auld Robin Gray
- The Irish Orange Girl, 1863
- The Silken Gown, 1864
- Our ‘Vashing Day, 1864
- Baith Faither and Mither, 1864
- The Last of the Clan (1865, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum)
- Ere Care Begins, 1866 (RA diploma work)
- The Poor, the Poor Man's friend (1867, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
- The Flower of Dumblane, 1868
- The Cradle, 1869
- Homeless, 1869
- The First Step
- Homeless (1868, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, Canada)
- A Highland Mother, 1870
- The Soldier's Return
Bibliography
Dixon, Marion Hepworth. “Thomas Faed, R.A..” Magazine of Art. 16 (December 1892-November 1893): 269-75. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 8 September 2013.
“The Late Thomas Faed, R.A.. In Memoriam” Magazine of Art. 24 (1900): 563-70. Hathi Digital Library Trust version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 17 January 2018.
“Selected Pictures in the Collection of W. Holdsworth, Esq., Halifa: Words of Comfort.” Art Journal (1855): 200-201. Hathi Trust Digital Library version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 31 July 2013.
Treuherz, Julian. “Thomas Faed: The Acceptable Face of Social Realism.” Hard Times: Social Realism in Victorian Art. London: Lund Humphries in Association with Manchester City Art Galleries, 1987.
Virtue Rewarded: Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection. Louiseville, Kentucky: J. B. Speed Art Museum, 1988.
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