Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864-1930), the son of the artist Edwin
Mostyn, studied at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. He had his
first local exhibition in 1880, and was showing at the Royal Academy
by the age of 29. He is mainly recognized for his romantic
garden scenes, although his style was so eclectic throughout his career
that it is hard to believe that the same artist created all of his
paintings.
Many
of his earliest works were strongly influenced by the strong
anti-"Victorian Materialist" sentiment of his teacher Sir Hubert Von
Herkomer (whose school he entered in 1893). In these works Mostyn
depicted the poverty of the working classes in the style of the
realists, an effective way of raising social consciousness. [this summary is an excerpt from Rehs Gallery]
A Fisherman's Daughter
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
Jewels
King Henry VII Fining the Citizens of Bristol
Because Their Wives Were So Finely Dressed, 1490
The Child
The Jeweled Box (1900)
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