Thomas Morten
Thomas Morten (1836–1866) was an English painter and book illustrator.
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Thomas Morten
Thomas Morten (1836–1866) · English Illustration, 'The Sixties': 1855-70 (1906) by Gleeson White · Public domain
- Born
- 1836 · Uxbridge.
- Died
- 1866 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Languages
- English
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Thomas Morten (1836–1866) was an English painter and book illustrator.
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Thomas Morten was born on 27 March 1836 at Uxbridge, Middlesex. He came to London and studied at the painting school kept by J. Mathews Leigh in Newman Street. Morten was chiefly employed as an illustrator of books and serials, mostly of a humorous nature. The most successful were his illustrations to an edition of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, published in 1864, which ran into several editions. Morten also practised as a painter of domestic subjects, and was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy, sending in 1866 Pleading for the Prisoner. His affairs, however, became embarrassed, and he committed suicide on 23 September 1866.
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• Illustration — Swift and the Mohawks (1861) • Illustration — The Father of the Regiment (1861) • Illustration — Lilliputians Examining the Man‐Mountain's Possessions (1874)
“Lilliputians Examining the Man‐Mountain’s Possessions,” illustration of characters Lemuel Gulliver and Lilliputians, from “About Some Queer Little People,” by Donald Grant Mitchell, St. Nicholas, Mar. 1874, 297. The illustration is uncredited in the source but is evidently a reprint of an 1865 illustration by Thomas Morten. (See File:Viagens_de_Gulliver_007.jpg)
Thomas Morten · St. Nicholas, Mar. 1874, 297.
Illustration for the poem "The Father of the Regiment" in Once a Week magazine, volume 5, page 71.
Thomas Morten (1836-1866), engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909) · Photo from National Gallery of Victoria of an item in their collections (link)
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1836
Thomas Morten was born on 27 March 1836.
1866
Thomas Morten died on 23 September 1866.
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Uxbridge.
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- 1.Goldman 2004.
- 2.Cust 1894, pp. 117–118.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Cust. Lionel Henry. Morten, Thomas. 39. 117-118.
- Cooke, Simon (21 March 2013). "Thomas Morten (1836-66)". Victorian Web. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- Goldman, Paul. Morten, Thomas (1836–1866), illustrator and painter. 2004.
- Graves, Algernon (1884). A Dictionary of Artists Who Have Exhibited Works in the Principal London Exhibitions of Oil Paintings From 1760 to 1880. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 165.
- Redgrave, Samuel (1874). "Morten, Thomas". A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 284.
- "Morten, Thomas". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
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Thomas Morten is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation illustrator.
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