Background
Thomas, Stephen Seymour was born on August 20, 1868 in San Augustine, Texas, United States. Son of James Edwards and Mary Landon (Blount) Thomas.
Thomas, Stephen Seymour was born on August 20, 1868 in San Augustine, Texas, United States. Son of James Edwards and Mary Landon (Blount) Thomas.
Student Art Students League, 1885-1888, Academie Julien, Paris, 1888-1891. Pupil of Jules Lefebre and Benjamin Constant. Master of Arts, Williams College, 1914.
Represented by portraits of Lord Bryce, National Liberal Club, London, England. Cardinal O’Connell; Doctor Arthur Noyes and Doctor Frederick Moore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. General Lew Wallace, John Herron Museum, Indianapolis.
President Woodrow Wilson, White House, and State House, New Jersey.
Mistress Seymour Thomas “Lady and Dog,” Metropolitan Museum of Artist “Lady with Muff,” Albright Gallery, Buffalo.
Equestrian portrait of General Sam Houston, Houston Art Museum. James Sheffield, United States Ambassador to Mexico, Yale Club, New New York
Darwin P. Kingsley, president of New York Life Insurance Company.
Mistress Andrew Carnegie private gallery, New New York Doctor Donald Cowling, Carleton College, Minnesota. Judge Abner Thomas, Surrogate Court, New New York
Francis Lynde Stetson, Bar Association, New New York
James Mabon, New York Stock Exchange. Judge William H. Moore, Calumet Club, Chicago.
Doctor Georgia Ellery Hale, Academy of Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia.
Doctor William Wallace Campbell, University of California, Doctor Ellwood Cuberly and Mistress Cuberly, Stanford University. Group portrait Doctorates Robert A. Millikan, George Ellery Hale and Arthur Noyes, California Institute of Technology.
Bishop Joseph H. Johnson, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Los Angeles Mistress John P. Jones, Los Angeles Museum.
Mildred Lee, Smithsonian Institution, “Victime Innocente,” Saint Vincent’s Hospital, Los Angeles, Mistress O’Connor, Dallas Museum Art, Colonel South. West. Blount, Texas History Society.
Portraits Mr. and Mistress George H. Maxwell, Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University. Mistress Alex Morrison, of California. Doctor Howard C. Nafziger, president American College of Surgeons.
2 portraits of Darwin Kingsley, New York Chamber of Commerce and New York Lifs Insurance Company.
Doctor Robert Gordon Sproul, president University of California. Mistress Joseph Sartori, regent University of California.
F. F. Prentiss, Chamber Commerce, Cleveland. Win. G. Mather, Cliff Iron Works, Cleveland.
2d portrait of Mr. Mather, Trinity College, Connecticut.
Portrait of Doctor Win. B. Munro, California, Institute Technology. Doctor Robert G. Cleland, Occidental College, Los Los Angeles
The Black Pearl, Los Angeles Museum.
Honorary mention Paris Salon, 1895, gold medal 1901 and 1904. Hors Concours Salon, 1904.
Bronze medal, Paris Exposition, 1900. Bronze medal, Buffalo Exposition, 1901.
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, 1905.
Member International Jury of Awards, Saint Louis, 1904.
Member International Jury of Awards, Saint Louis, 1904. Member Paris Society of America Painters, Los Angeles Art Association, Pasadena Art Society, Academy of Western Painters. Clubs: Century (New York).
Married Helen M. Haskell, October 11, 1892 (died May 5, 1942).