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THOMSON, HENRY, born at Portsea, July 31, 1773, died there, April 6, 1843. Son of a purser in the navy; pupil of Opie and student in 1790 at Royal Academy; travelled and studied in Italy, and in Vienna and Dresden in 1793-99; became A.R.A. in 1801, and R.A. in 1804. In 1825 succeeded Fuseli as keeper of Academy, but resigned in 1827. Painted historical and fancy subjects and portraits. Works: The Dead Robin (1809), National Gallery; Christ raising Jairus's Daughter (1820); Miranda's First Sight of Ferdinand (1822); Juliet (1825).—Art Union (1843), 147; Cat. Royal Academy; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Redgrave; Sandby, i. 326.
THOMSON, Rev. JOHN, born at Dailly,
Ayrshire, Sept. 1, 1778, died at Duddingston,
Oct. 20, 1840. Called Thomson of
Duddingston. Amateur landscape painter,
pupil of Alexander Nasmyth; first exhibited
in 1808, with the Society of Associated Artists,
Edinburgh, to which he contributed
one hundred and nine pictures, from 1808
to 1840, inclusive. He was made an honorary
member of the Royal Scottish Academy,
having refused actual membership on account
of his profession. Work: Loch-an-Eilan
at Rothiemurchus—Inverness-shire
(1835), National Gallery, London.—Art
Journal (1883), 78.
THON, SIXT ARNIM, born at Eisenach,
Nov. 10, 1817. Genre painter, pupil of
Leipsic Academy, then in Weimar of Preller,
with whom he visited the Isle of Rügen
(1837), the Thuringian Forest (1840), Norway,
and the Netherlands; afterwards
studied for one year in Antwerp, and after
his return to Weimar became instructor at
the Grand-ducal School of Design and at
the Sophienstift. Works: Adventure of
Travel in Norway; Gleaner Woman; Girl
with Pitcher; Two Citizens of Antwerp;
Musicians in Winter; Sleeping Boy, Christiania
Gallery.—Andresen, iv. 62.
THORBURN, ROBERT, born in Dumfries,
March, 1818, died at Tunbridge
Wells, Nov. 2, 1885. Portrait and figure
painter, pupil of Royal Institute, Edinburgh,
and of Royal Academy, London,
where he first exhibited in 1837; elected an
A.R.A. in 1848. Was a successful miniature
painter, having among his sitters the
Queen (1846) and other members of the
royal family, but on introduction of photography
painted life-size portraits and ideal
figures. Works: The Orphans (1866); Undine,
Country Life (1869); John Baptist,
Catherine of Aragon (1870); Concealment
of Moses (1871); Rebekah at Well (1873);
In the Meadow on the Hillside (1874);
Christian descending the Hill Difficulty
(1876); Slough of Despond (1878); The
Two Marys at the Tomb (1879); Rediviva
(1880); Bonbons, The Fates, Eastern
Water Carrier, Angel's Whisper (1882);
Queen Catherine on the Eve of her Divorce,
Babes in the Wood, Game of Chess
(1883).—Athen., Nov. 7, 1885, 610; Sandby,
ii. 221.
THOREN, OTTO VON, born in Vienna
in 1828. Animal and landscape painter,
studied in Brussels and Paris, taking up
painting in 1857, after having served in the
Austrian army in the campaigns of 1848-49;
returned to Vienna in 1865 and afterwards
settled in Paris. One of the best of living
animal painters. Member of Vienna and
St. Petersburg Academies. Medals: Paris,
1865; Munich, 1869; Vienna, 1882. Order
of Francis Joseph; Russian Order of Vladimir.
Works: Death of Gustavus Adolphus
at Lützen (1856); Horse in Stable, Cleaning
the Horse (1857); Mare with Foal (1858),
Königsberg Museum; After Battle (1859);
Cows at Pasture, Horses Ploughing (1861);
Cattle Thieves, Horse Thieves (1865); Autumn
Morning in Flanders, Ploughing Oxen
in Slovenia (1866); Near the Wolf (1870),
Vienna Academy; The Forsaken Ones, Approaching
Storm, Too Late (1867); Pasture
in Normandy (1873); Cows attacked by
Wolves, Museum, Vienna; Wood Landscape
with Hungarian Oxen, Two Hungarian
Peasants on Horseback, Czernin Gallery,
ib.; Equestrian Portrait of Emperor