Newcombe rates a long entry in Christopher Wood's dictionary. He was a Liverpool landscape painter whose real name was Frederick Harrison Suker but who adopted a pseudonym to distinguish himself from his father and brother, who were also artists. (Did Thackeray's novel The Newcomes, the hero of which, Clive Newcome, is an artist, influence his choice?) He exhibited at the Liverpool Academy from 1867 and the Royal Academy from 1875, in which year his picture The Head of a Highland Glen won high praise from Ruskin in his revived Academy Notes. In fact he almost certainly knew Ruskin since he made Keswick his headquarters from 1880, and died an Coniston. Other favourite painting grounds were Bettws-y-Coed, Scotland, Warwickshire and Devon.