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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