Francis Wynne-Thomas

1907 - 1988

Francis Wynne Thomas was born in Bromley, Kent, the son of Dr Harold Wynne-Thomas, a prominent homeopathic doctor. Francis initially studied architecture at Cambridge before going on to study art at Heatherley's under Frederick Whiting. During World War II Thomas served as an officer in the RAF stationed at the Photographic Interpretation Unit at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. A portrait and landscape painter, he exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Institute of Painters in Oils.