Thomas Collier
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Thomas Collier (Unitarian)
Thomas Collier was an English General Baptist preacher and Arian polemicist.-Life:Thomas Edwards in his Gangræna alleged that Collier originally was an illiterate carter or husbandman...

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 (12 November 1840 – 14 May 1891) was an English landscape painter.

Collier was born in Glossop
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 in Derbyshire
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, the son of Martha Siddall and Thomas Collier, who was a prosperous grocer and tea dealer. He received tuition at the Manchester School of Art and, inspired by David Cox
David Cox (artist)
- David Cox Junior :David Cox had a son of the same name who followed his calling as a watercolour painter. He was born in Dulwich, but educated in Hereford. He exhibited in London from 1827, although today he is known mainly through association with his father. He died in Streatham on 4 December...

's example, lived at Betws-y-Coed
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 in northern Wales between 1864 and 1869. He moved to London in about 1870 on being elected to the New Water Colour Society
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours , initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, , is one of the societies in the Federation of British Artists, based in the Mall Galleries in London.-History:In 1831 the society was founded as the New Society of Painters in Water...

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Collier was a close friend of Charles Stuart Millard, the Canadian-born painter (who moved to England before 1879 and was employed as an instructor at the South Kensington Art School
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, before taking up an appointment as Headmaster at the Cheltenham School of Art).
Although not a prolific worker or exhibitor, he is regarded as one of the finest of English landscape watercolourists. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of a painting sent to the Paris International Exhibition
Exposition Universelle (1878)
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 of 1878. Collier was industrious, retiring and often in poor health, yet financially independent, able to work without pandering
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 to popular taste and to travel at will into the Suffolk countryside. In 1879 he arranged for the construction of a large house and studio in Hampstead
Hampstead
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 where he spent his days painting and entertaining artist friends.

Collier died in Hampstead
Hampstead
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, London in 1891.

External links

  • Cromer (watercolour - Tate online)
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