32 Facts About Thomas Lound

Thomas Lound was an amateur English painter and etcher of landscapes, who specialised in depictions of his home county of Norfolk.

Thomas Lound was a member of the Norwich School of painters, and lived in the city of Norwich all his life.

Thomas Lound become an avid collector of works of art, and particularly admired the paintings of the Norwich painter John Thirtle.

Thomas Lound was popular amongst his contemporaries, and close friends with the Norwich artists Robert Leman, Henry Bright and John Middleton.

Thomas Lound is considered by art historians to rank among the best of the watercolourists of the Norwich School.

Thomas Lound was trained by John Sell Cotman, but his artistic style was more heavily influenced by the landscapist David Cox.

Thomas Lound was a competent copyist with a talent for imitating the artistic style of other artists.

Parish records show that Thomas Lound was born on 13 July 1801, the son of Thomas and Mary Lound, and was christened by his parents in the parish church of Beeston St Andrew, Norfolk on 9 August 1801.

Thomas Lound married Harriot Wetherill on Christmas Day 1821, and there were several children.

Thomas Lound was later employed as an agent for the insurance company County Fire and Provident Life Office.

Thomas Lound lived in comfort, residing throughout his adult life on King Street, in the centre of Norwich.

Together with Leman, the artists Henry Bright and John Middleton and Thomas Lound were all close friends.

Thomas Lound used his yacht Kathleen, which was adorned with a number of oil paintings, as a venue for entertaining his friends.

Thomas Lound is known to have travelled to Wales with Leman in 1851, and surviving sketchbooks show that he went to Wales and Yorkshire on sketching tours in 1845,1853 and 1854.

Thomas Lound was an avid collector of other artists' works, in particular those painted by the Norwich painter John Thirtle.

Thomas Lound exhibited waxed-paper views of Ely Cathedral, Norwich fish market, and the ruins of Bromholm Priory.

Thomas Lound, who suffered from ill health all his life, died suddenly of apoplexy on 18 January 1861 whilst at his Norwich house in King Street.

Thomas Lound was one of a group of talented amateurs who learnt from the previous two generations of Norwich School artists.

Thomas Lound was a pupil of the artist John Sell Cotman, although his influence was not as great as that of the English landscape painter David Cox.

Thomas Lound became an accomplished draughtsman whose charcoal and chalk drawings resemble those by Joseph Stannard.

Thomas Lound was a prolific watercolourist despite working for the family business throughout his working life.

Thomas Lound specialised in producing views of his native county of Norfolk.

The art historian Josephine Walpole considers Thomas Lound as ranking amongst Leman, Bright, Middleton, John Sell Cotman and his sons, and Thirtle as the best of the Norwich School watercolourists, but notes that Thomas Lound lacked the skill and consistent quality displayed by his amateur friends.

Thomas Lound describes the many small watercolours he produced as spontaneous, charming, and full of vitality.

Thomas Lound with Leman helped to form the Norfolk and Norwich Art Union, and was a while its president.

The art historian Derek Clifford describes his drawings as having "been done before by somebody else; so that every Thomas Lound is, as it were, a Thirtle or a Cotman or a Bright or a Cox".

Thomas Lound's works have at times been confused with those of Cotman, Crome, and Thirtle.

Thomas Lound exhibited twelve works with the Norwich Society of Artists from 1820 to 1833, first exhibiting his painting St Benet's Abbey.

Thomas Lound exhibited in London from 1845 to 1859, showing pictures at the British Institution and the Royal Academy of Arts.

Thomas Lound was a competent copyist, reproducing works such as Cotman's St Martin's Gate, Norwich and his Yarmouth Jetty, as well as paintings by John Crome, Robert Dixon, Cox and Joseph Stannard.

Thomas Lound was influenced by Cotman in his style of oil painting.

Thomas Lound's oils contain both broad brush and fine brushwork, but according to Walpole, his oil paintings are less assured than his watercolours.