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THOMSON THOMSON, HENKY, 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 Vi- enna and Dresden in 1793-99 ; became A.RA. 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 Eobin (1809), National Gallery ; Christ raising Jairus's Daughter (1820) ; Mi- randa's First Sight of Ferdinand (1822) ; Juliet (1825). Art Union (1843), 147 ; Cat. Royal Academy ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole anglaise ; Redgrave ; Sandby, i. 326. THOMSON, Rev. JOHN, born at Dailly, Ayrshire, Sept. 1, 1778, died at Dudding- ston, Oct. 20, 1840. Called Thomson of Duddingston. Amateur landscape painter, pupil of Alexander Nasmyth ; first exhibited in 1808, with the Society of Associated Ar- tists, Edinburgh, to which he contributed one hundred and nine pictures, from 1808 to 1840, inclusive. He was made an hono- rary member of the Royal Scottish Academy, having refused actual membership on ac- count 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 Prel- ler, with whom he visited the Isle of Riigen (1837), the Thuringian Forest (1840), Nor- way, and the Netherlands ; afterwards studied for one year in Antwerp, and after his return to AVeimar became instructor at the Grand-ducal School of Design and at the Sophienstift. Works : Adventure of Travel in Norway ; Gleaner AVoman ; Girl with Pitcher ; Two Citizens of Antwerp ; Musicians in Winter ; Sleeping Boy, Chris- tiania Gallei-y. Andresen, iv. 62. THORBURN, ROBERT, born in Dum- fries, March, 1818, died at Tunbridge Wells, Nov. 2, 1885. Portrait and figure painter, pupil of Royal Institute, Edin- burgh, and of Royal Academy, London, where he first exhibited in 1837 ; elected an A.R.A. in 1848. Was a successful minia- ture painter, having among his sitters the Queen (1846) and other members of the royal family, but on introduction of photog- raphy painted life-size portraits and ideal figures. Works : The Orphans (1866) ; Un- dine, 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) ; Redi- viva (1880) ; Bonbons, The Fates, Eastern Water Carrier, Angel's Whisper (1882) ; Queen Catherine on the Eve of her Di- vorce, Babes in the Wood, Game of Chess (1883). Athen., Nov. 7, 1885, 610 ; Sand- by, 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 Vladi- mir. Works : Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Liitzen (1856) ; Horse in Stable, Cleaning the Horse (1857) ; Mare with Foal (1858), Ki'migsberg Museum ; After Battle (1859) ; Cows at Pasture, Horses Ploughing (1861) ; Cattle Thieves, Horse Thieves (1865) ; Au- tumn Morning in Flanders, Ploughing Oxen in Slovenia (1866) ; Near the Wolf (1870), Vienna Academy ; The Forsaken Ones, Ap- proaching Storm, Too Late (1867) ; Pasture in Normandy (1873); Cows attacked by Wolves, Museum, Vienna; Wood Land- scape with Hungarian Oxen, Two Hun- garian Peasants on Horseback, Czernin Gal- lery, ib.; Equestrian Portrait of Emperor 270