William Thurston Topham
William Thurston Topham was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, William Thurston Topham's estimated art value is C$3,000 (*)
William Thurston Topham's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$1,000 - C$5,000, or even much higher.
ArtValue.ca has 18 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$1,000 to C$5,000.
Cowley Abbott Auction House Biography and Notes
William Thurston Topham was born in Spondon, England, on July 23, 1888, to William Topham, a provision merchant, and Lucinda Mary Dale, who died when he was four years old. He first served as an apprentice to L.L. Goldie, a Derby architect, learning watercolour painting, interior decoration, and architectural design; however, hoping to become an artist, he took classes at the Derby Municipal School of Art in the evenings. In 1908 his aunt, Anne Topham, an English governess to Kaiser Wilhelm's daughter, invited him to Berlin, where he worked for the architects Schwitters and Bothke. Again he took evening classes, this time at the Arthur Lewin-Funcke School of Art, which was modelled on the Academie Julian in Paris. The following year he spent time in Paris and then joined H.H. Martyn Co. in Cheltenham, England. In 1911 he immigrated to Montreal, where he decorated interiors and designed period furniture for the Bromsgrove Guild.