Thomas Corsan Morton

Thomas Corsan Morton (* 1859 in Glasgow, † December 24 1928 in Kirkcaldy, Fife ) was a Scottish painter of the late Impressionism and member of the Glasgow Boys, a group of artists from the 19th and early 20th century.

Life and work

Morton studied at the Glasgow School of Art with Alphonse Legros and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In Paris, he took classes with Gustave Boulanger and Jules -Joseph Lefebvre. He was a member of the Glasgow Boys, a group of artists, which was decisively influenced by the realism of the French Barbizon school and thereby made ​​known to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Scotland. He regularly visited the studio of William York MacGregor, founder and mentor of the group, and often collaborated with James Paterson and Edward Arthur Walton. With Edward Atkinson Hornel he was a close friend and often met with him.

Morton operation especially landscape painting and genre painting. In addition, he also painted Floral Still Life. He exhibited his works at the Grosvenor Gallery, from 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 Watercolours, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Aberdeen Artists' Society, the Liverpool Walker Art Gallery and the Manchester City Art Gallery exhibited his work.

In 1890 he married Amelie Lydiard Robertson, the couple had two children. Morton was appointed in 1908 to the curator of the National Gallery of Scotland and later the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery. Morton lived in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy, where he died in 1928.