Thomas Monro (art collector)
Thomas Monro | |
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Born | 1759 London, England |
Died | Bushey, Hertfordshire, England | 13 May 1833
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Physician |
Known for | 'The Monro Circle'; art collector |
Thomas Monro (1759–1833) was a British
Physician
Thomas Monro was born 1759, in London, youngest son of
Like his father and
In 1792 he became Principal Physician as successor to his father.[1] He resigned in June 1816, as a result of scandal when he was accused of ‘wanting in humanity’ towards his patients.[2]
Patron
Monro was also known as a patron to numerous artists (including
Other painters who visited his home included J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Farington, Thomas Hearne (1744–1817), James Bourne, Henry Edridge, William Henry Hunt, John Laporte and John Varley.[3]
Monro had a house in Adelphi Terrace, London and a cottage in Fetcham, Surrey (until 1805). From 1807 until his death, on 14 May 1833, he lived in a 'country house' in Merry Hill near Bushey in Hertfordshire.[1]
Monro was himself an amateur artist, and a pupil of John Laporte.
Family
Monro had several children, and three of his sons also became artists,[3] in particular Henry (1791–1814). Coincidentally, Monro's distant kinsman Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar would later be one of Turner's chief patrons.
See also
- The Monro family of Physicians
References
- ^ a b c d e Monkhouse 1894.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ^ a b Hertfordshire in History, Edited by Dr Doris Jones-Baker. Schools of Art in South West Hertfordshire, 1850-1900, by Grant Longman. Google Books
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Monkhouse, William Cosmo (1894). "Monro, Thomas (1759-1833)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.