Thomas Lound was born on 13 July 1801, the son of Thomas and Mary Lound, and was christened by his parents in Beeston St Andrew parish church on 9 August 1801.
He married Harriot Wetherill in 1821 and there were several children. An amateur artist, he was involved with his family’s brewing business in Norwich, Charles Tompson & Sons, which was the source of his wealth. He was later employed as an agent for the insurance company County Fire and Provident Life Office. He lived in comfort, resides throughout his adult life on King Street, in the centre of Norwich. He used his yacht Kathleen, which was adorned with a number of oil paintings, as a venue for entertaining his friends.
Lound was a pupil of the artist John Sell Cotman. He exhibited in London from 1845 to 1859, and with the Norwich Society of Artists from 1820 to 1833
A popular painter amongst his peers, he was a great friend of the amateur artist Robert Leman. John Middleton was in turn devoted to Lound. An artist with a prolific output, he specialised in producing views of his native county of Norfolk, but surviving sketchbooks show that he went to Wales and Yorkshire on sketching tours
He became a member of the Norwich Society of Artists at the age of 18. He exhibited in Norwich and London between 1842 and 1862, showing pictures at both the British Institution and the Royal Academy of Arts. Writing in the 1980s, the art historian Andrew Moore has praised his View of Norwich (Mill in Foreground) as “the most perfect example of Lound’s original compositions”.
Lound helped to form the Norfolk and Norwich Art Union and was a while its President. He was also a keen photographer who was wealthy enough to possess his own photographic equipment and was a committee member of the Norwich Photographic Society. Little of his work as a photographer appears to have survived.
He was a great admirer of the Norwich artist John Thirtle and used his wealth to acquire seventy-five of Thirtle’s paintings.
Lound, who suffered from ill-health all his life, died suddenly of apoplexy on 18 January 1861, whilst at his Norwich house in King Street.
Biography From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lound
