A Neapolitan Boy Decorating the Head of his beloved one at the festival of the Madonna of the Arch

Thomas Uwins was a British portrait, subject, genre and landscape painter in watercolour and oil, and a book illustrator. He became a full member of the Old Watercolour Society and a Royal Academician, and held a number of high-profile art appointments including the librarian of the Royal Academy, Surveyor of Pictures to Queen Victoria and the Keeper of the National Gallery.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland