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See also:THOMSON, See also:JOHN (1778-184o) , Scottish landscape painter—Thomson of Duddingston, as he is commonly styled—was See also:born on the 1st of See also:September 1778 at Dailly, See also:Ayrshire. His See also:father, grandfather and See also:great-grandfather were clergymen of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Scotland. He studied for the same vocation in the university of See also:Edinburgh; and, residing with his See also:elder See also:brother, 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 Thomson, afterwards celebrated as an antiquarian and feudal lawyer, he made the acquaintance of See also:Francis See also:Jeffrey and other See also:young members of the Scottish See also:bar afterwards notable. During the See also:recess he sketched in the See also:country, and, while attending his final See also:college session, he studied See also:art for a See also:month under See also:Alexander See also:Nasmyth. After his father's See also:death he became, in 'Soo, his successor as See also:minister of Dailly; and in 18os he was translated to the See also:parish of Duddingston, See also:close to Edinburgh. He continued, however, to practise art as an See also:amateur, apparently without any detriment to his See also:pastoral duties. Thomson's popularity as a painter increased with his increasing See also:artistic skill; and, having mastered his initial scruples against receiving artistic fees, on being offered X15 for a landscape--reassured, by " Grecian " See also:Williams's stout assertion that the See also:work was" See also:worth thrice the amount "—the minister of Duddingston began to dispose of the productions of his See also:brush in the usual manner. In 183o he was made an honorary member of the Royal Scottish See also:Academy. Thomson was also an accomplished performer`on See also:violin and See also:flute, an exact and well-read student of See also:physical See also:science, and one of the writers on See also:optics in the See also:early See also:numbers of the Edinburgh See also:Review. He enjoyed a singularly wide and eminent circle of See also:friends, including, among artists, See also:Turner and See also:Wilkie, and among men of letters, See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson and See also:Scott—the latter of whom desired that Thomson, instead of Turner, should have illustrated the collected edition of his See also:works. He died at Duddingston on the 27th of See also:October 1840 (not the loth, as stated by some authorities). Thomson was twice married, and his second wife, the widow of Mr Dalrymple of See also:Cleland, was herself also a skilful amateur artist.
Thomson is fairly represented in the Scottish See also:National See also:Gallery; and the " Aberlady See also:Bay " of that collection, with the soft infinity of
its clouded See also:grey See also:sky, and its See also:sea which leaps and falls again in waves of sparkling and of shadowed See also:silver, is See also:fit to See also:rank among the triumphs of Scottish art.
End of Article: THOMSON, JOHN (1778-184o)
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