Thomas Jacques Somerscales: A Mariner's Vision of Chile Thomas Jacques Somerscales (1842 – 1927) was an English teacher, sailor and landscape painter whose artistic legacy resides primarily in his evocative depictions of Chilean naval history and the rugged beauty of Patagonia. Though largely unrecognized during his lifetime—described by contemporaries as “a little known artist”—Somerscales achieved considerable renown within Chile wh…