Thomas Wheeler Taylor (a.k.a. Thomas Wheeler/Thomas Swimmer) was a landscape painter, designer and draughtsman who was born in Dieppe on 8th May 1932. He was the only child of Lindsay Wheeler Taylor (1898–1965) and his wife Erszibet (Elizabeth) Schwimmer, his father being a mechanical engineer. His mother was born in Hungary in February 1902 and Thomas adopted ‘Swimmer’, based on her name, as his painting identity because more distinctive than Taylor. In September 1939, the family were living at 92 Essendine Mansions in Paddington. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London, under Ian MacNab and then spent six years at the Royal Academy Schools, where he excelled and was taught by Peter Greenham and Bernard Fleetwood Walker.

Text source: Art Detective


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