Thomas William Bowler (1812 - 1869)

Born 9 Dec 1812 in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Died 24 Oct 1869 at age 56 in London, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Thomas William Bowler^[1] is a well known early South African landscape painter, mainly for his engravings of the Cape of Good Hope in the years 1834-1868, after which he travelled to Mauritius to produce a series of pictures, continued via Egypt to publish them in London, where he died shortly after arrival.

His wikipedia entry^[1] gives the following details of his life and career:

• Birth: 9 December 1812, in Tring, Hertfordshire
• Parents: William Bowler and Sarah Butterfield
• Married twice, to Jane Hawthorne and Maria Jolly, and they had 10 children.
• 5 Jan 1834, lands at Cape Town, as servant to Thomas Maclear the Astronomer Royal, who also collaborated with John Herschel.
• July 1835-1838, joins service of Capt. Richard Wolfe, Commander of Robben Island (and the view!)
• 1838 Drawing Master at Diocesan College, from 1842 at South African College
• May 1854-March 1855 Return to England for tuition with artist James Duffield Harding
• August 1868 Travel to Mauritius, producing "20 views of Mauritius", and continuing via Egypt to England planning to get these published, but he died soon after arrival.
• In 1886, he was well enough known in Britain to be included in Bryan's Dictionary of Paiinters and Engravers

Research Notes

The 1886 Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers^[2] contains the following entry for Thomas William Bowler:

BOWLER, THOMAS WILLIAM, a landscape painter, lived for some years at the Cape of Good Hope, and published a series of views of Cape Town and its neighbourhood. He afterwards visited Mauritius and brought home many drawings taken on that island. He died in 1869.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Wikipedia: Thomas William Bowler
2. ↑ Entry for Thomas Willam Bowler on page 178, of Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.), 1886, by Michael Bryan. Editor Robert Edmund Graves. Publisher: London George Bell & Sons

• F.R. Bradlow, "Thomas Bowler, His Life and Work", Cape Town, 1967
• F.R. Bradlow, "Thomas Bowler in Mauritius. A detail in the history of contacts between the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius 1866-1868", Cape Town, 1970, A.A. Balkema Publ.