Thomas Mann Baynes was a London born English

England

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 artist known for his drawings and watercolours

Watercolor painting

Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...

 of landscapes, buildings and outdoor events. Many of his subjects were engraved and published, generally in London, and these include a notable panorama of the River Thames, which was drawn from nature and engraved on stone. He was the son of James Baynes

James Baynes

James Baynes was an English watercolour painter and drawing-master.Little is known of his family apart from the fact that he was born in Lancaster as the son of a local tradesman and was the eldest of six children, his grandfather being a Catholic priest in Kirkby Lonsdale where his father was born...

, a noted watercolour artist.

Baynes also produced views of Liverpool and Ireland, and appears to have made a successful living as a printer prior to his death in 1854. His son Fredrick Thomas Baynes (1824–1874) was also a noted watercolour artist.

Thomas Mann Baynes' works include:

• Views on the River Thames in London
• View of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway From Over the Tunnel, Taken on the Opening Day, May 3rd 1830
• The Giant's Causeway

Many of Baynes' drawings were engraved and published as prints.

External links

• The Landing of Dona Maria (1828 lithograph - Falmouth Art Gallery)
• View of Greenwich Hospital (1823 watercolour - Courtauld Institute of Art)
• 2 works by Baynes (Brighton & Hove museums)