Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (2 March 1892 – 24 April 1947) was an English painter of Hungarian and South African descent. Born in India on 2 March 1892, the son of Thomas Herman Lowinsky of Tittenhurst,

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Thomas Lowinsky, Monica Bohm-Duchen, Tate Gallery, 1990, pg 9 and elder brother to author and philanthropist Xenia Field, Lowinsky grew up in England and was educated at Eton and at

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before studying at the

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from 1912 to 1914. Following service in France during

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, Lowinsky continued painting, holding his first one-man exhibition at the

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in 1926. He was a member of the

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from 1926 to 1942. Lowinsky's work was primarily portraiture, but he also painted fantasy scenes. Amongst the books for which he provided illustrations was

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's Elegy on Dead Fashion Lowinsky married Ruth Jeanette Hirsch in 1919; their children were Katherine Mary (b. 1920), wife of Lancelot George Thirkell, son of the novelist

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; (Thomas) Martin Francis Esmond (1922-1944), killed whilst a lieutenant in the

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; Claire Marie Claude (b. 1925); and Justin Mark Esmond (b. 1929), who also served in the Scots Guards as a second lieutenant from 1948 to 1949. Lowinsky died in London on 24 April 1947; a memorial exhibition was held in 1949 at Wildenstein's. Subsequent exhibitions have been held at the

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(1981) and the

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(1990). His works include ''The Mask of Flora'' (1931), ''The Offering of Cain and Offering of Abel'' (1932), and portraits of Miss

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(1926), Miss Jean Brady (1933) and Miss Avril Turner (1937).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lowinsky, Thomas Esmond 1892 births 1947 deaths English surrealist artists People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art 20th-century English painters English male painters English people of Hungarian descent English people of South African descent 20th-century English male artists British people in colonial India