Alfred Reginald Thomson was an English artist and Olympic Gold Medalist, most notable for being an official War Artist to the Royal Air Force during World War Two.
10 Facts About Alfred Thomson
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Alfred Thomson was deaf from birth and when the family returned to Britain from India he attended the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate.
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Alfred Thomson's father was unhappy that he had not learnt to speak terribly well, and transferred him to a small private oral school run by a Mr Barber at Brondesbury.
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Alfred Thomson left the farm, finding his first paid work designing posters at Vitagraph, in Long Acre, for a whisky company.
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Alfred Thomson created a series of posters for Daimler Cars.
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Alfred Thomson had a talent as a caricaturist and he drew his fellow artists and friends.
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Alfred Thomson completed a number of commissions for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during World War Two and in September 1942 became a full-time salaried artist attached to the Air Ministry, taking over the post that Eric Kennington had resigned from.
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Alfred Thomson painted several portraits of RAF air crews and medical and civil defence subjects.
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In 1945 Alfred Thomson was elected to the Royal Academy and soon became a highly respected society portrait painter.
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Alfred Thomson continued to paint murals, most notably for the Science Museum and the London Dental School.