The Itinerant Brush of the Texas Frontier Born in the industrial air of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in 1809, Thomas Flintoff was a man of movement. He did not settle into a quiet life of studio work, but instead followed the shifting tides of the mid-nineteenth century, eventually crossing the Atlantic to reach the United States around 1850. His arrival in Galveston, Texas, in the spring of 1851 marked the beginning of a brief but in…