Artist: Thornley, Georges William
Georges William Thornley (1857 – 1935) was a French painter and printmaker. He was the son of a Welsh immigrant Morgan Thornley.
A student of the French landscape painter Eugène Ciceri and Edmond Yon, Thornley became a successful artist remembered for his seascapes from Normandy and his landscapes from the French and Italian Rivieras.
He also was a talented watercolorist, engraver, and lithographer. His lithographs after the works of Corot, Monet, Pissarro, Degas and Puvis de Chavannes were acclaimed by his peers and awarded at the Salon de Paris.
Click here to read Thornley’s full bio on Wikipedia.
Thornley painted in several different places in Normandy (and Brittany). Here are the places he painted in Normandy (a link to his works will appear when published):
- Dieppe
- Etretat
- Le Havre
- Mont St Michel
- Rouen
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