John Arthur Lomax was an British** genre painter, born in Manchester. He studied in Stuttgart and at the Munich Academy, but returned to Manchester and later relocated to London.
The artist’s subjects were mainly historical genre of the 17th and 18th Centuries, especially of the Civil War period, often with a dramatic or sentimental theme.
Titles at the Royal Academy include “Thoughts of Christmas”, “An Old Master” and “Flaw in the Title”.
Lomax exhibited thirty-three paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists and also exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.