Henry Thomson (painter)

[7][note 1] The first picture Thomson exhibited at the Royal Academy was entitled Daedalus fastening wings on his son Icarus.

[6] Thomson's principal works include Mercy interceding for a fallen Warrior (1804),’Love Sheltered and The Red Cross Knight (1806), ’Love's Ingratitude (1808), The Distressed Family (1809),’ Titania’ (1810),’ Peasants in a Storm (1811),’ The Infancy of Jupiter and Lavinia (1812),’ Eurydice and Thais (1814),’ Cupid Disarmed and Icarus (1815),’ Christ raising Jairus's Daughter (1820),’ Perdita (1824),’ and Juliet (1825),[5] which was his last work to be exhibited.

[4] Love Sheltered and The Red Cross Knight were both engraved in mezzotint,[5] as were portraits of the Marquess of Normanby, Lord Penrhyn, Nathan Drake, Sir William Weller Pepys, Sir James Campbell, and Emily St Clare[8] and a depiction of Titania, the last engraved by William Say and published by Richard Lambe in 1811.

[5] Thomson translated from the French into English Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy's The Destination of Works of Art and the Use to which they are Applied, published in London in 1821.

[10][11] Letitia Elizabeth Landon includes a poem on Thomson's painting Juliet after the Masquerade in her Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures in The Troubadour (1825).