Dieppe – The Artists – Thornley, Georges William – Travel Information and Tips for France

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Dieppe. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

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 Eugene 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.

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Thornley painted in several different places in France (mostly Normandy). Here are the places he painted in France (a link “⇠” to his works will appear below when published):

Hauts de France
- Boulogne
Normandy
- Dieppe ⇠
- Le Havre ⇠
- Mont St Michel
- Rouen
Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
- Saint-Tropez

Dieppe in Normandy was a popular place for artists to come and apply their art. Here is a list, non exhaustive, of the artists that painted in Dieppe.

A link (“⇠”) to the artist’s works will appear when published (a “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Dieppe, instead worked in nearby villages):

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