Alfred Thomson

Thomson was born in Bangalore in India where his father George was a British civil servant who had married an Irish woman, Florence Green.

[1] His father was unhappy that he had not learnt to speak terribly well, and transferred him to a small private oral school run by a Mr Barber at Brondesbury.

[1] He left the farm, finding his first paid work designing posters at Vitagraph, in Long Acre, for a whisky company.

[2] Thomson completed a number of commissions for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during World War Two and in September 1942 became a full-time salaried artist attached to the Air Ministry, taking over the post that Eric Kennington had resigned from.

Thomson painted several portraits of RAF air crews and also medical and civil defence subjects.