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Frederick Thomas Lines (26 July 1808 – 10 April 1898) was an 
Lines was the youngest son of
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portrait painter
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in addition to experimenting in studies from nature and landscape. Lines was known to be a master of the medium of watercolour.
Lines was the youngest son of Samuel Lines
Samuel Lines (1778 – 22 November 1863) was an English designer, painter and art teacher, and an early member of the Birmingham School of landscape painters.
A significant figure in the development of art in Birmingham during its rapid grow ...
(1778–1863) and so a brother to Samuel Rostill Lines
Samuel Rostill Lines (15 January 1804 – 9 November 1833; sometimes listed as Samuel Restell Lines) was an English painter and illustrator.
Born in Birmingham, he was the third son of Samuel Lines, one of the founders of the academy for the ...
and Henry Harris Lines
Henry Harris Lines (born 1800 or 1801, died 1889) was a landscape artist and archaeologist, and the eldest son of Birmingham artist and drawing master Samuel Lines (1778–1863). There are a number of Henry's works stored in the permanent ...
. He was born in 1808 but not baptised till age 30.
He was tutored in drawing by his father. Lines travelled to London
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to train as a portraitist with artist Richard Evans (1784–1871), who was employed as an assistant to work in the studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).
Lines taught drawing at Edwin Hill's Bruce Castle School in Tottenham
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and later returned to Birmingham
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to assist his father in his academy of arts.
Lines frequently exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts, in addition to the Royal Academy in London and the Birmingham Society of Arts (now known as the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a ...
), joining in 1837.
He was married to Sarah Breedon Butler, and they had two children, Frances Elizabeth and Frederick Joseph Butler Lines, the latter of whom also showed artistic talent like his father. The family lived in Handsworth, then in Staffordshire.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lines, Frederick Thomas 1808 births 1898 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English watercolourists English portrait painters Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists English landscape painters British art teachers People from Handsworth, West Midlands 19th-century English male artists