(1820 - 1899)
Henry Andrews Luscombe was born in Plymouth; the son of a coal merchant. He painted the shipping in the Sound, exhibiting eleven scenes at the Royal Academy in London (1845-65). With leading Plymouth marine painters T. L. Hornbrook dying in 1850 and the Condys in 1851 and 1857, Luscombe was without a competitor as a Plymouth marine painter throughout the 1860s. In 1850 he married Elizabeth Congdon; with whom he had four children. In the 1851 census he is listed with the occupation of coal merchant. By 1861 he was ‘Secretary to the Phoenix Coal Company and Marine Artist’. After the coal company was wound up in 1876, he concentrated solely on painting. Late in his career, he moved to Uxbridge, with his daughter, Florence. He died aged 79.
