William George Thomson

William George Thomson painted the same quiet street corner in early 1900s Edinburgh so often that locals started waving when they spotted him setting up his easel. He mixed his own colors on the spot, kept a jar of linseed oil behind a lamppost like a secret pantry. Peek into Untitled (1906) and you’ll see the tenement shadows leaning long across wet cobbles, the kind of scene tourists still photograph today.

Gallery Tiles keeps this painting on the tile wall so you can zoom in on one brick-red door and pretend you’re standing there with Thomson, oil paint on your shoes.