Stephen Seymour Thomas

S. Seymour Thomas (1868-1956) was born in San Augustine Texas. He began painting and drawing at an early age and from 1885 to 1888 attended the Art Students League in New York, where he studied under William Merritt Chase and James Carroll Beckwith. At the age of twenty Thomas studied in Paris under Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. He also took a private class with Alexander Harrison and studied at the École des Beaux Arts for six years. He painted both genre and landscape subjects and exhibited for twenty consecutive years at the Paris Salon, where he received his first honors in 1891.

Thomas painted portraits of many famous persons, including several of President Woodrow Wilson, one of which hangs in the White House.