Samuel Lucas (1805–1870) was a British amateur painter who worked in Hitchin as a brewer.

Because his family were in the Society of Friends, Samuel was required to concentrate on his academic studies although his primary interest was art.

Lucas would visit Thompson and they would paint around the now lost landscape that is now beneath Haweswater Reservoir in the Lake District.

[2] His granddaughter, Florence Davy Thompson, the founding librarian of the University of Manitoba, was also an accomplished artist.

[4] His biography, Samuel Lucas, His Life and Art Work by Reginald Hine, was published by Walkers Galleries Ltd in 1928.