Thomas Cromwell Corner

American (1865-1938)

Born in 1865 in Baltimore, Maryland, Thomas Cromwell Corner was a noted portrait and still life artist and a founding member of the Baltimore Museum of Art. While a student at Baltimore City College, Corner studied under George B. Way, a local landscape painter. He went on to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Art Students League of New York under J. Alden Weir and Kenyon Cox. In the fall of 1888 he enrolled in the Academie Julian, where he studied with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Gabriel Ferrier. In 1892, Corner returned to Baltimore where he became a successful portrait artist. He was also known for his sumptuous still lifes. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, Paris Salon, Corcoran Gallery and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His works are held in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Historical Society.