Thomas Corsan Morton
Thomas Corsan Morton (* 1859 in Glasgow ; † December 24, 1928 in Kirkcaldy , Fife ) was a Scottish late Impressionist painter and member of the Glasgow Boys , a group of artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Life
Morton studied at the Glasgow School of Art with Alphonse Legros and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In Paris he took lessons from Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre . He was a member of the Glasgow Boys , an artist group that was significantly influenced by the realism of the French Barbizon School and thereby made Impressionism and Post-Impressionism known in Scotland. He regularly attended the studio of William York MacGregor , the group's founder and mentor, and worked frequently with James Paterson and Edward Arthur Walton . He was close friends with Edward Atkinson Hornel and met him frequently.
Morton mainly operated landscape painting and genre painting . He also painted flower still lifes . He has exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery , the New English Art Club , the Royal Society of British Artists, and the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers . The Royal Scottish Academy , the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colors , the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts , the Aberdeen Artists' Society , the Liverpool Walker Art Gallery and the Manchester City Art Gallery also showed his work.
In 1890 he married Amelie Lydiard Robertson and the couple had two children. Morton was appointed curator of the National Gallery of Scotland and later the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery in 1908. Morton lived in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy, where he died in 1928.
literature
- Roger Billcliffe: The Glasgow Boys , Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-0-71122906-8 , pp. 139 ff
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| SURNAME | Morton, Thomas Corsan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish late impressionism painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1928 |
| Place of death | Kirkcaldy , Fife |