Henry Somm, Enjoying a Cigarette Imari He taught art for many

He taught art for many years at Camberwell School of Art and Stoke-on-Trent College of Art

His paintings are populated by sailors

Somm had the painter’s eye to the highest degree imaginable

His first artworks date back to 1966

The many three-dimensional designs found their way to exhibitions and galleries in and outside Europe

Henry Somm, Enjoying a Cigarette Imari He taught art for manySigned lower right Pencil, gouache and watercolour on paper Image size 24 x 19,5 cm Framed behind glass 36,5 x 31,5 cm Biography Henry Somm Franois Clment Sommier (Rouen 1844 1907 Paris) is best known under the pseudonym Henry Somm. He attended the local cole municipale des beaux arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils. Somm is perhaps best known for his depictions in both drawings and watercolours of Parisian society.