Thomas Leeson Rowbotham (1782-1853) Thomas Leeson Rowbotham was born in Bath in 1782 where he worked as a teacher of marine painting, cottage figures and landscape, before moving to Dublin. He lived in Bristol from about 1825-35, where he made many drawings for G. W. Braikenridge and taught drawing, including to Braikenridge's daughters. Perhaps his most ambitious drawings are the panoramas of Bristol he made for Braikenridge. He also made Romantic sepia drawings and drew the Bristol Riots, which were published as lithographs in 1832-33. He moved to London around 1835, where he taught at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, Lewisham. He died in Camberwell in 1853. He wrote two popular books, The art of sketching from nature and, with his son, The art of landscape painting in water colours. The watercolours of his son, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham (1823-1875) are better known than his own.