Benjamin Haughton

Benjamin Haughton RBA was an English landscape painter. He was born in Little Sutton, Cheshire and graduated from Caius College, Cambridge with a degree in chemistry in 1886. His father wished him to become a doctor but Benjamin decided to travel to the United States where he worked a number of jobs in Dakota during which time he started to paint. After a bout of rheumatic fever, he decided to return to Europe and become a landscape painter.