THOMAS ADOLPHUS
FALCON R.B.A. (1872 – 1944)
“Studland Church, Dorset”
Watercolour
& Pastel. Signed with monogram
Inscribed
with title on reverse. 40 x 44.3cm IMAGE
Thomas Aldolphus Falcon was a landscape painter who was born on 24th
July 1872 at Pudsey in Yorkshire. He was
educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was elected Member of the Royal Society of
British Artists in 1902 and exhibited 138 works with them. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the
Royal Cambrian Academy, the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, Walker Art
Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Society of Portrait
Painters and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He published Dartmoor Illustrated in 1900 and Pictorial Dartmoor in 1902.
He worked in Devon and lived for many years at Braunton. He died on 28th January 1944.
