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Timothy Waite Wells Artist born in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, 25th January 1942, died 16th February 1998.

Timothy Waite Wells graduated from the University of Hartford School of Art, where he studied under Heinrich Mayer and Paul Zimmerman. He did post-graduate studies in England, France, Italy and Spain. In New York City he studied portraiture with Felix Dicassio at the Phoenix School of Art. He moved to Lymington, Hampshire, England in 1969 where he lived and painted for almost thirty years.

Timothy Wells' paintings are in the collections of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the Boston Historical Society, the University of Hartford, CT and the Exeter Maritime Museum, England.

Wells' exhibitions included: The International Maritime Art Awards Show, Mystic, Connecticut; The Annual Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists, New York; one-man shows at Wallington Hall, the Queen’s Hall and the Moot Hall, Hexham, Northumberland, and at Trinity Maritime Centre, Newcastle.

Timothy Wells is best known for his paintings of marine subjects, but after moving to Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland in 1985, he focused mainly on landscapes in both oil and watercolour.

Timothy Wells taught painting as the principal tutor at The Old Vicarage Painting Holidays from 1988 until his death in 1998.

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