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VERY RARE "English Painter" Cave Thomas Hand Written 2 Page Letter:
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Up for sale a RARE! "English Painter" Cave Thomas Hand Written 2 Page Letter Dated 1876.

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William

Cave Thomas (8 May 1820 –

1896? 1906?), generally referred to as Cave Thomas was an

English painter of historical, religious and literary subjects, also known as a

sculptor and author. Thomas was born in London, a son of a picture-frame maker

and gilder. He studied at the Royal Academy in the 1830s and in 1840 travelled to Munich, where for several years he attended the Academy of Fine Arts,

learning the techniques of fresco painting, working at the basilica of St. Boniface's Abbey and

elsewhere under Heinrich Maria von Hess and

was influenced by "Nazarenes" Peter von Cornelius and Johann Friedrich Overbeck. In

1843 he returned to London, where he had some success as a painter and taught

at an art school in Camden Town, and over the

years wrote articles for art journals and specialist magazines such as The Builder. In April 1842 H.M. Government established a

competition to select British artists to create artwork on which to base

frescoes for the new Houses of Parliament, then

under construction. A royal commission was formed with Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865), as secretary, and a

panel which included the Prince Albert, various noblemen and connoisseurs, and such men

as the historian Henry Hallam, the

poet Samuel Rogers, and the

painter William Etty. Over three

years, monochrome cartoons 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m)

in height by some 200 artists were displayed in a series of exhibitions

("Westminster competitions"[3]) held at Westminster Hall. From these, six artists were

selected:— Charles West Cope, William Dyce, John Callcott Horsley, Daniel Maclise, Richard Redgrave and William Cave Thomas. The subjects

Thomas chose for his entries were "St Augustine Preaching to the

Britons", "The Bark of the Prosperous", "Justice", and

"Philosophy". These last two, for which Thomas was awarded £400, were shown at, respectively, Hampton Court Palace and University College, London.

Justice was used as modello of Lady Justice in the House of Lords fresco. Thomas was described as

a fringe member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,

perhaps an understatement as although his output was not large, he was a friend

of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and

shared a studio with Ford Madox Brown in the 1840s. It has been suggested that

it was him who gave the original title, The Germ, for their

famous magazine. 

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