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See also:PHILLIPS, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1770-1845) , See also:English portrait and subject painter, was See also:born at See also:Dudley in See also:Warwickshire on the 18th of See also:October 1770. Having acquired the See also:art of See also:glass-See also:painting at See also:Birmingham he visited See also:London in 1790 with an introduction to See also:Benjamin See also:West, who found him employment on the windows in St See also:George's See also:Chapel at See also:Windsor. In 1792 Phillips painted a view of Windsor See also:Castle, and in the next two years he exhibited the " See also:Death of See also:Talbot, See also:Earl of See also:Shrewsbury, at the See also:Battle of Castillon," " See also:Ruth and Naomi," " See also:Elijah re-storing the Widow's Son," " See also:Cupid disarmed by See also:Euphrosyne," and other pictures. After 1796, however, he mainly See also:con-fined himself to portrait-painting. It was not See also:long before he became the chosen painter of men of See also:genius and See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, notwithstanding the rivalry of See also:Hoppner, See also:Owen, See also:Jackson and See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence; and he See also:left behind portraits of nearly all the illus-trious characters of his See also:day. In 1804 he was elected See also:associate and in 18o8 member of the Royal See also:Academy. In 1824 Phillips succeeded See also:Fuseli as See also:professor of painting to the Royal Academy, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he held till 1832. During this See also:period he de-livered ten Lectures on the See also:History and Principles of Painting, which were published in 1833. He died on the loth of Aprii 1845.
End of Article: PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1770-1845)
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