Background
Tom Watson was born on March 16, 1863, in Whitby, York, United Kingdom.
Tom Watson was born on March 16, 1863, in Whitby, York, United Kingdom.
Tom Watson began his professional career in 1892 in the general practice of photography, doing portraits, views, postcards, and albums in Scandinavia, France, Spain, Portugal, the U.S. and particularly in the village of Lythe of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. He was the personal photographer of the Marquis of Normanby, who was also his patron.
While his surviving work is in the form of glass negatives and modern prints of local topographical interest, there is also a smaller collection of original prints in existence.
A large portion of his work is missing. Photographs taken after the turn of the century have the visual characteristics of current twentieth-century topographical photography.
Tom Watson was a member of the Institute of Incorporated Photographers in Great Britain.
Quotes from others about the person
Curator Ken Baird describes Watson's work as "topographical views of historical value, in land use and environmental change."