William James Thomson was a Canadian artist and engraver, best known for the images he recorded of Toronto. Some of those structures are only known from his paintings, drawings, and engravings. From 1889-1893 Thomson worked as an engraver for the ''

Toronto Globe ''The Globe'' was a newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1844 by George Brown as a Reform voice. It merged with '' The Mail and Empire'' in 1936 to form ''The Globe and Mail''. History ''The Globe'' is pre-dated by a title of the sa ...

''. The

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curates a collection of over 900 of his ''Globe'' engravings. Thomson became the first President of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, in 1916. Thomson was born in

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. He attended the

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, where his instructors included

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. Thomson's patrons included Sir Byron Edmund Walker and

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. He was a founding member of the Ontario Archeological Association, precursor of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomson, William Canadian painters Canadian engravers 19th-century births 1927 deaths