George Housman Thomas

George Housman Thomas (

Life

He was born in London in 1824 and after an apprenticeship there to a

Thomas resided at the boroughs of Kingston and Surbiton till illness caused his removal to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he died on 21 July 1868. A collection of his works was exhibited in Bond Street in June 1869, and his sketches and studies were sold at Christie's in July 1872.

Works

About 1850 Thomas produced a set of woodcuts for

Thomas exhibited his first picture, St. Anthony's Day at Rome, at the British Institution in 1851. Garibaldi at Rome, painted from sketches made in 1849, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1854, and attracted much attention. His next picture was Ball at the Camp, Boulogne, 1856.

Thomas obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria, and painted the following pictures by her majesty's command:

• Distribution of
  Crimean Medals
  , 18 May 1855, 1858;
• Review in the Champ de Mars in Honour of Queen Victoria, 1859;
• Parade at Potsdam, 17 August 1858, 1860;
• Marriage of the
  King of Prussia, and Marriage of the Princess Alice
  , 1863;
• The Queen and
  Prince Consort at Aldershot
  , 1859, 1866 ;
• The Children of Princess Alice, 1866;
• The Queen investing the
  Sultan of Turkey with the Order of the Garter, 1868, painted from a sketch by Princess Louise
  .

• Esq., and T. R. Macquoid, Esq., and Engraved by William Thomas, Esq., London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1853 (a pirated^[1]
  English edition of the original)
  • Most of the illustration were reused without credits[1] in Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, A New Edition, With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of the Work by George Bullen, Together with an Introductory Account of the Work. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888
• Myles Birkett Foster, George Thomas e Harrison Weir, Sampson Low
  and Son, London, 1855
• Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield A Tale. Illustrated by George Thomas. London and New York: Sampson Low & Son; and Bangs, Brother, & Co. 1855
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• Myles Birkett Foster
  , Household Song. Collection of lyrical pieces. With illustrations by B. Foster, G. H. Thomas, S. Palmer, etc., 1861
• Gilbert Percy, Piccalilli: a mixture, (illustrations by George Housman Thomas & Thomas R. Macquoid, engraved by Edmund Evans), London, Sampson Low Son & Co., 1862
• Last Chronicle of Barset, Smith Elder, 1867 (online
  at Internet Archive)
• George Routledge and Sons
  , 1868
• The Life and Adventures of Dr. Livingston: in the interior of South Africa... Illustrated with portrait, map, and sixty engravings, etc., Henry Gardiner Adams, William Harvey, F. G. Sargent, George Houseman Thomas, J. Blackwood & Co., 1868
• Wilkie Collins, Armadale, in Cornhill Magazine, November 1864 - June 1866....

Notes

References

• Obituary: The Late George Housman Thomas, The Times, July 30, 1868
• G. H. Thomas - Obituary, The Gentleman's Magazine, new series, vol. 225, June–November 1868, p. 568

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dodgson, Campbell (1898). "Thomas, George Housman". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 182.

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