Georges William Thornley (2 May 1857 – 31 August 1935) was a French painter and printmaker.
A student of the French landscape painter Eugène Cicéri and Edmond Yon, Thornley became a well-off artist remembered for his seascapes from Normandy and his landscapes from the French and Italian Rivieras. He was the son of a Welsh immigrant Morgan Thornley.
He plus was a proficient watercolorist, engraver, and lithographer. His lithographs after the works of Corot, Pissarro, Degas and Puvis de Chavannes were recognized by his peers and awarded at the Salon de Paris.
His paintings were exhibited dawn in 1878. He won the Mention of Honor in 1881 and a Third Class medal in 1888. Thornley embraced the Impressionist commotion early in his career, which brought him much success.
His style characteristically has bold brushwork and thick “impasto.” It recreates the “impression of a panorama”, capturing the fleeting moment in its inner buoyant and color. This open landscape is an example of what the artiste excelled at: successful color effects which are severely decorative but stay legitimate to nature.
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