Thomas Edward Plint (1823–1861) was a British stockbroker and important Pre-Raphaelite art collector who commissioned and owned several notable paintings.Dianne Sachko Macleod, "Plint, Thomas Edward (1823–1861)", '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 In 1839, with his friend Charles Reed, he started and edited a magazine called ''The Leeds Repository''. A religious evangelical, Plint served as a lay preacher at Leeds Congregational Chapel. In 1852, he commissioned Ford Madox Brown to complete '' Work'', a celebration of the protestant work ethic. He demanded changes to the composition, notably the inclusion of a distributor of evangelical tracts, but died before its completion. He was at one time owner of '' The Black Brunswicker'', which he purchased from Ernest Gambart.Russell Ash, ''Victorian Masters and Their Art'', Pavilion, p. 340. Other paintings in his collection included Millais's '' Christ in the House of His Parents''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Plint, Thomas British art dealers 1823 births 1861 deaths Businesspeople from Leeds 19th-century English businesspeople