Thomas Brown Clark (1895–1983) was a Scottish painter who worked in

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and

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Life and work

T. B. Clark was born in Scotland in 1895, later studying painting at

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. He exhibited extensively, including at the

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, the

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, and the United Society of Artists. He specialised in coastal views, portraying both the natural beauty of the landscape, and the industry that he found there. He often travelled abroad on painting excursions, finding particular affinity with the landscapes of Ireland and France. By the 1950s Thomas had relocated to Holmsbury St Mary, Surrey in the south of England. He died in 1983.

Exhibitions

The oil painting titled ''Rue de la Paix, Quimper'' was exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1953.''Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970'', Vol 2 (EP Publishing LTD, 1979)

References

1895 births 1983 deaths 20th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters Scottish landscape painters Scottish watercolourists Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art 20th-century Scottish male artists {{Scotland-painter-stub