Joseph Thors Biography

Joseph Thors was a highly-respected 19th-century British landscape painter from London. He also worked in the Midlands region, the area surrounding Birmingham, England's second largest city at that time. Thors was regarded as an important member of the Birmingham School, a prestigious group of artists from the Midlands area.

His landscape paintings are described as rustic scenes with cottages, figures and animals, painted in a style clearly influenced by the Norwich School.