• Was an English painter.
of landscapes, horses and other animals, horse-racing and hunting scenes.
• Towne was born in Wigan, the son of Richard Town, a portrait-painter from Liverpool, and his wife Mary.
• He received some training from landscape painter John Rathbone in Leeds.
• He then worked as a coach and ornamental painter with his brother in Liverpool, and also worked for a time in Lancaster and Manchester.
• In 1785 he married Margaret Harrison, a widow.
• By the 1790s he was an established animal painter with a style reminiscent of
Stubbs.
• He lived in London from 1799 to 1804.
• He also added a final 'e' to his name.
• He became a friend of fellow artists
George Morland and De Loutherbourg.
• He returned to Liverpool in 1810, and was a founder member of the Liverpool Academy, becoming vice-president in 1812–13.
