Artists

Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as indicated by the fact that his paintings are part of the most important U.S. art collections. During the last third of his...

Charles Henry Francis Turner [1] (7 August 1848 - 24 November 1908) was an American watercolourist and oil painter of landscapes, portraits, illustrations, and genre scenes, who from 1877 studied with Otto Grundmann (1844–1890), founder of the "Boston School", at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School.[2] Turner was a member of the Unity Art Club and...

Törmer : Benno Frederick T. (Not Thörmer how Nagler writes) Painter, was born on 4 July 1804 in Dresden-Neustadt, the second son of the Royal. Saxon. Captain and drawing teacher at the Engineering Academy of Dresden born. Because he wanted to devote himself to painting, he entered the Art Academy there on 6 November 1819th Already in the next, as...

The family records that William John Thomson had one son, William Thomas Thomson, who had a son Spencer Campbell Thomson, but there the trail ends. Any leads about the early Thomson family history would be welcomed by the Thomson family. William John Thomson was originally taken to London where he learned to paint and exhibited at the Royal...