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	'''Alfred Reginald Thomson''' {{Post-nominals\|country=GBR\|RA}} (10 December 1894 – 27 October 1979) was an English artist and [[Olympic gold medalist\|Olympic Gold Medalist]], most notable for being an official [[War Artist]] to the [[Royal Air Force]] during World War Two.		'''Alfred Reginald Thomson''' {{Post-nominals\|country=GBR\|RA}} (10 December 1894 – 27 October 1979) was an English artist and [[Olympic gold medalist\|Olympic Gold Medalist]], most notable for being an official [[War Artist]] to the [[Royal Air Force]] during World War Two.

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	[[File:Charity Bick (1941) (Art.IWM ART LD 1207).jpg\|thumb\|right\|Thomson's portrait of George medal holder [[Charity Bick]] ]]		[[File:Charity Bick (1941) (Art.IWM ART LD 1207).jpg\|thumb\|right\|Thomson's portrait of George medal holder [[Charity Bick]] ]]
	Thomson was born in Bangalore in India where his father George was a British civil servant who had married an Irish woman, Florence Green.<ref name="Dimmock">{{cite book \|author1=Dimmock, A F \| title=Tommy: A biography of the Distinguished Deaf Royal Painter A.R. Thomson \| publisher=Scottish Workshop Publications \| year=1991 \| isbn=1873577109 }}</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite newspaper The Times \|~~articlename~~=Mr A.R. Thomson \|~~section~~=Obituaries ~~\|day_of_week=Friday~~		Thomson was born in Bangalore in India where his father George was a British civil servant who had married an Irish woman, Florence Green.<ref name="Dimmock">{{cite book \|author1=Dimmock, A F \| title=Tommy: A biography of the Distinguished Deaf Royal Painter A.R. Thomson \| publisher=Scottish Workshop Publications \| year=1991 \| isbn=1873577109 }}</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Mr A.R. Thomson \|department=Obituaries \|date=23 November 1979 \|page=14 \|issue=60482 \|column=G }}</ref> Thomson was deaf from birth and when the family returned to Britain from India he attended the Royal School for Deaf Children at [[Margate]].<ref name="room4art" /> While at the school, he learnt sign language.<ref name="Dimmock"/> By the time he was 13, he was already six feet tall.<ref name="Dimmock"/> His father was unhappy that he had not learnt to speak terribly well, and transferred him to a small private oral school run by a Mr Barber at Brondesbury.<ref name="Dimmock"/> Later in life he was known, in the press, as the [[Deaf-mute\|"deaf and dumb"]] artist.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conArtist.126 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703041203/http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conArtist.126 \|archivedate=2009-07-03 \|title=Alfred Thomson RA (1894-1979)}}</ref>
	\|date=23 November 1979 \|~~page_number~~=14 \|issue=60482 \|column=G }}</ref> Thomson was deaf from birth and when the family returned to Britain from India he attended the Royal School for Deaf Children at [[Margate]].<ref name="room4art" /> While at the school, he learnt sign language.<ref name="Dimmock"/> By the time he was 13, he was already six feet tall.<ref name="Dimmock"/> His father was unhappy that he had not learnt to speak terribly well, and transferred him to a small private oral school run by a Mr Barber at Brondesbury.<ref name="Dimmock"/> Later in life he was known, in the press, as the [[Deaf-mute\|"deaf and dumb"]] artist.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conArtist.126 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703041203/http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conArtist.126 \|archivedate=2009-07-03 \|title=Alfred Thomson RA (1894-1979)}}</ref>

	Although Thomson attended the London Art School in Kensington for a time, under C.M.Q. Orchardson, a son of [[William Quiller Orchardson]], and was tutored by [[John Hassall (illustrator)\|John Hassall]], he failed to pass the exam for entry into the Royal Academy School, and his father sent him to work on a farm in Lenham, Kent, and forbade him from doing any art.<ref name="Dimmock"/> He left the farm, finding his first paid work designing posters at Vitagraph, in [[Long Acre]], for a whisky company.<ref name="Dimmock"/> He also created a series of posters for Daimler Cars.<ref name="obit" />		Although Thomson attended the London Art School in Kensington for a time, under C.M.Q. Orchardson, a son of [[William Quiller Orchardson]], and was tutored by [[John Hassall (illustrator)\|John Hassall]], he failed to pass the exam for entry into the Royal Academy School, and his father sent him to work on a farm in Lenham, Kent, and forbade him from doing any art.<ref name="Dimmock"/> He left the farm, finding his first paid work designing posters at Vitagraph, in [[Long Acre]], for a whisky company.<ref name="Dimmock"/> He also created a series of posters for Daimler Cars.<ref name="obit" />
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Alfred Reginald Thomson
| birth_name = Alfred Reginald Thomson
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|12|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Bangalore, India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|10|27|1894|12|10|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], London
| nationality = British
| field = Painting, poster design
| training = London Art School
}}
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'''Alfred Reginald Thomson''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (10 December 1894 – 27 October 1979) was an English artist and [[Olympic gold medalist|Olympic Gold Medalist]], most notable for being an official [[War Artist]] to the [[Royal Air Force]] during World War Two.

==Biography==
[[File:Charity Bick (1941) (Art.IWM ART LD 1207).jpg|thumb|right|Thomson's portrait of George medal holder [[Charity Bick]] ]]
Thomson was born in Bangalore in India where his father George was a British civil servant who had married an Irish woman, Florence Green.<ref name="Dimmock">{{cite book |author1=Dimmock, A F | title=Tommy: A biography of the Distinguished Deaf Royal Painter A.R. Thomson | publisher=Scottish Workshop Publications | year=1991 | isbn=1873577109 }}</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Mr A.R. Thomson |section=Obituaries |day_of_week=Friday
|date=23 November 1979 |page_number=14 |issue=60482 |column=G }}</ref> Thomson was deaf from birth and when the family returned to Britain from India he attended the Royal School for Deaf Children at [[Margate]].<ref name="room4art" /> While at the school, he learnt sign language.<ref name="Dimmock"/> By the time he was 13, he was already six feet tall.<ref name="Dimmock"/> His father was unhappy that he had not learnt to speak terribly well, and transferred him to a small private oral school run by a Mr Barber at Brondesbury.<ref name="Dimmock"/> Later in life he was known, in the press, as the [[Deaf-mute|"deaf and dumb"]] artist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conArtist.126 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703041203/http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conArtist.126 |archivedate=2009-07-03 |title=Alfred Thomson RA (1894-1979)}}</ref>

Although Thomson attended the London Art School in Kensington for a time, under C.M.Q. Orchardson, a son of [[William Quiller Orchardson]], and was tutored by [[John Hassall (illustrator)|John Hassall]], he failed to pass the exam for entry into the Royal Academy School, and his father sent him to work on a farm in Lenham, Kent, and forbade him from doing any art.<ref name="Dimmock"/> He left the farm, finding his first paid work designing posters at Vitagraph, in [[Long Acre]], for a whisky company.<ref name="Dimmock"/> He also created a series of posters for Daimler Cars.<ref name="obit" />

At the end of the First World War Thomson established himself as a commercial artist and figure painter.<ref name="obit" /> In the 1930s he created a series of murals for the Duncannon Hotel in London.<ref name="obit" /> Thomson also had a talent as a caricaturist and he drew his fellow artists and friends.<ref name="obit" />

Thomson completed a number of commissions for the [[War Artists' Advisory Committee]] during World War Two and in September 1942 became a full-time salaried artist attached to the Air Ministry, taking over the post that [[Eric Kennington]] had resigned from. Thomson painted several portraits of RAF air crews and also medical and civil defence subjects.<ref name="IWMthomson">{{cite web |author=Imperial War Museum|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1050000846
|title=War artists archive;- A.R. Thomson |accessdate=10 February 2015|work=[[Imperial War Museum]]}}</ref><ref name="Foss">{{cite book|author=Brian Foss|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2007|title=War paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945 |ISBN=978-0-300-10890-3}}</ref>

In 1945 Thomson was elected to the [[Royal Academy]] and soon became a highly respected society portrait painter.<ref name=RAat>{{cite web |url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5927 |title=Alfred Thomson R.A |accessdate=4 September 2016|work=[[Royal Academy]]}}</ref> He also continued to paint murals, most notably for the [[Science Museum, London|Science Museum]] and the London Dental School.<ref name="room4art">{{cite web|url=http://www.room4art.com/artist-info/alfred-thomson/|title=Artist: Alfred Thomson|publisher=room4art|accessdate=10 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080202190643/http://www.room4art.com/artist-info/alfred-thomson/|archive-date=2 February 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 Olympic Games in London]], Thomson became the last person to win a [[List of Olympic medalists in art competitions#Paintings|Gold Medal for painting]] as medals for art were abandoned in subsequent Olympic games.<ref>*{{cite journal|title=The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 |pages=535–537 |publisher=The Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad |location=London |year=1951 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf|accessdate=7 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727011947/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf |archivedate=27 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920552 |title=Alfred Thomson |work=Olympedia |accessdate=22 August 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Alfred Reginald Thomson}}
* {{Art UK bio}}

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