Thomas Sutcliffe was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 watercolour painter.

Sutcliffe was born and lived most of his life in the Leeds

Leeds

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 area, particularly Headingley

Headingley

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. He married
Sarah Lorentia Button, and they had a large family, including his eldest son, the famous photographer Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

Francis Meadow Sutcliffe was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century.-Early life:He was born in Headingley, Leeds, to the painter...

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He was self-taught, but was elected to the Institute of Water-Colour Painters and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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. He was said to excel at landscape

Landscape

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s but also painted figures well, and tended to the Pre-Raphaelite school. His works included a set of over 50 featuring the Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 coast from Hull

Kingston upon Hull

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 to Redcar

Redcar

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He died of heart disease on 11 December 1871 in Whitby

Whitby

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a combined maritime, mineral and tourist heritage, and is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey where Caedmon, the...

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