Thomas Mogford (painter)

He showed an early talent for drawing, as well as mechanics and chemistry, but eventually decided on painting.

[2] He sent three pictures to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1838, and three in 1839, including a full-length portrait of Sir Thomas Lethbridge, 2nd Baronet, with his horse and dog.

About 1843 he moved to London, and subsequently exhibited at the Royal Academy portraits of the sculptor E. H. Baily, the engraver Samuel Cousins, the astronomer John Couch Adams for Cambridge University, the historian Henry Edward Napier and others.

[2] Subsequently he moved to Guernsey, where he practised almost entirely as a landscape painter; he also founded a school of painting on the island.

Though for some years crippled by palsy through the effects of lead poisoning, he continued to paint up to the day of his death.