Thomas Corsan Morton | |
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 Morton around 1890 | |
| Born | (1859-12-06)6 December 1859 |
| Died | 24 December 1928(1928-12-24) (aged 69) |
Thomas Corsan Morton (6 December 1859 – 24 December 1928) was a Scottish artist, known as one of theGlasgow Boys.
Born in Glasgow, Morton worked briefly in a lawyer's office, and went to the city'sSchool of Art. After a period at theSlade School in London, he studied in Paris underGustave Boulanger andJules Joseph Lefebvre. He exhibited widely in the UK and beyond, often in exhibitions with work by other members of the Glasgow School, includingSecessionist exhibitions inMunich in the 1890s.
Morton was primarily a landscape artist. Some of his work came from summer painting trips with others of the "Boys". These included stays inKirkcudbright and inCockburnspath,James Guthrie's home, in the 1880s.
He taught landscape painting at the Glasgow School of Art, and assistedFrancis Newbery with the life drawing classes.
His first one-man-show was organised in November 1894 at the gallery ofAlexander Reid at 124 St Vincent Street in central Glasgow.[1]
In May 1908, he was appointed Keeper of theScottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. He moved to 7 Comiston Road in the south of the city.[2] After retiring from that post in 1925 he became Curator of the newly established Art Gallery inKirkcaldy, where he died in December 1928.
He is buried in theDean Cemetery, Edinburgh with his wife Amelie Robertson (1869-1942), whom he had married in 1890, and their daughter Mildred Bruce Tupman (d.1972). The grave lies to the north of the southern path, near to that ofHenry Snell Gamley.
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