Thomas Kinkade

William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for achieving feat during his lifetime subsequent to the bump marketing of his produce an effect as printed reproductions and extra licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company. According to Kinkade's company, one in all twenty American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings.

Kinkade described himself as a "Painter of Light", a phrase he protected by trademark, but which was earlier used to describe the English performer J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851).

Kinkade was criticized for some of his actions and situation practices; art critics faulted his piece of legislation for being "kitsch". Kinkade died of "acute intoxication" from alcohol and the drug diazepam at the age of 54.