Percy Thomas
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 1846
Place of birth: London
Date of death: 1922.07.08
Place of death: London
Category: etcher
Identity:
Percy Thomas, the son of Serjeant Ralph Thomas, was a painter and etcher. His brother Ralph was a law partner of Whistler's solicitor J. A. Rose. His other brother Edmund was a dealer and print publisher at 39 Old Bond Street in London.
Life:
In 1874 Percy etched Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of the Painter y122 for the frontispiece of the first catalogue of Whistler's etchings, published by his brother Ralph. In 1873 Ralph had bought The Forge [86] for £3.10.0 (#10628). In 1874 Whistler asked Ralph to supply him with two small plates for his new etching, possibly Reading a Book [112], Tatting [130] or The Muff [131], prepared by Percy or the printer Auguste Delâtre (#10892). In 1887 Edmund held an exhibition of The Works of James Whistler, Etchings and Drypoints in his Bond Street gallery (#00172).
Bibliography:
Thomas, Ralph, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-points of James Abbott MacNeil [sic] Whistler, London and New York, 1874; Bénézit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, Paris, 1956-61; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 ; Maas, Jeremy, The Victorian Art World in Photographs, London, 1984 ; .
