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Thomas Jacques Somerscales

Thomas Jacques Somerscales (1842 - 1927) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Thomas Somerscales is known for Painting; marine.

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A great natural talent, Thomas Jacques Somerscales took a rather unorthodox route to becoming a recognized marine art sensation in his native England. Educated as a teacher, he sketched and painted while serving onboard ships in the Royal Navy as a schoolmaster. Influenced early on by the beauty of J M W Turner's compositions, Somerscales' work possesses his acute sense for the world's creative nature, and the deep strength of its challenging oceans. Some of Somerscales's earliest known works are of exotic locales in Tahiti, painted years before Gauguin's time there. The son of a master mariner, fate and circumstances put him ashore in Chile in 1869 when he contracted malaria. On his recovery Somerscales excelled as a local artist and in 1872 exhibited a series of landscapes in Santiago. When war broke out between Chile and Peru in 1879, Somerscales began painting the naval battles and there was soon a tremendous national demand for his marine pictures. At the end of 1892, at t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3294 characters.]  Artist bio

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