Joseph Warren Thyng was a landscape painter who was born August 3, 1841 in Lakeport, New Hampshire. He also lived in Salem, Massachusetts, Manchester, New Hampshire and Akron, Ohio. For the last six years of his life, he maintained a studio in North Woodstock, NH. He studied under George Loring Brown in Boston and at the National Academy of Design in NY.

Thyng taught at the Massachusetts State Normal Art School in Salem, MA for eleven years. He also taught in New Hampshire at the Manchester public schools, and the normal school in Plymouth. He moved to Akron, OH in 1883, and was a founder of the Akron School of Design. He remained in Ohio for eight years, and served concurrently as the supervisor of drawing in the public schools for six of those years.  He also acted as special artist for Harper’s Weekly for 12 years.

His works are represented at the New Hampshire Historical Society.

Some known works include:

Lake Winnipesaukee Showing the Excursion Steamer. Aquatint. 12 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches.

Mount Washington Steamer – A Side Wheeler. Oil on canvas. 1869.

        Mt. Chocorua and Lake, New Hampshire. Morning Early Autumn Oil on board 14 x 12 inches.

        Valley of the Pemigewasset. Oil on canvas. 1901. 37 x 56 1/4 inches.

J. Warren Thyng died of bronchial pneumonia in North Woodstock, NH on July 9, 1927. He is buried in the Lakeport village of Laconia, NH at Hillside Cemetery.

References
New Hampshire Scenery
Independent research by the authors