Thomas Peploe Wood (1 January 1817 – 4 April 1845) was an English landscape painter. A number of his pictures are at the

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, the

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and the William Salt Library, Stafford. Cattle Piece, 1843, by Thomas Peploe Wood

Biography

Thomas Peploe Wood was born in

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the son of Joseph and Alethea Wood. Joseph Wood was a toll gate keeper and shoemaker. He was largely self-taught, but was encouraged by local architect Thomas Trubshaw (1801–1842). In 1836 Trubshaw took Wood to London and introduced him to the print dealer and connoisseur, Dominic Charles Colnaghi, and the sculptor,

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. Wood spent most of his life in his native Staffordshire, but made further visits to London in 1839, 1840 and 1843, and undertook a tour of England, Ireland and Scotland in 1838. In 1844 Wood exhibited a painting of Manley Hall at the

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. He also exhibited one picture at the British Institution and 19 at the Birmingham Society of Arts. Wood specialised in watercolour sketches and oil paintings of landscape, buildings and animals. His chief patron was

William Salt William Salt (29 October 1808 – 6 December 1863) was a British banker in London, England, and a genealogist and antiquary in whose memory the William Salt Library in Stafford was founded. Life Salt's father, John Stevenson Salt (High Sh ...

, banker and antiquary, who commissioned Wood to paint landscapes and buildings for his collections for a history of Staffordshire. Wood suffered from ill health throughout his life, and succumbed to tuberculosis aged 28. His youngest brother was the sculptor and painter

Samuel Peploe Wood Samuel Peploe Wood (17 February 1827 – 30 July 1873) was an English sculptor and painter. His sculpture can be seen on many churches and public buildings in England, and there are a number of his sketches and watercolours at Staffordshire Co ...

(1827–1873). A large and elaborate memorial cross to Thomas and other members of the family, carved by Samuel in 1866, still stands in the churchyard of St. Michael and All Angels Church, Colwich.Monument to the Wood family at Colwich Church, on Staffordshire Past Track
Staffordshire Archives & Heritage. Retrieved 12 June 2014.

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* British landscape painters 1817 births 1845 deaths 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis People from the Borough of Stafford 19th-century British painters Tuberculosis deaths in the United Kingdom {{UK-painter-19thC-stub