Edward H. Thompson (1879 - 1949) was born in Cumbria and went against the wishes of his parents to become a painter. In his lifetime he painted as many as ten thousand paintings and most of them of the Lake District.
Known as Ted, he had an interest in painting from an early age when he spotting someone painting and thought he could do better than that. He eventually became a full time artist
He also painted picture postcards for Valentines of Dundee. In the 1940s Valentines reproduced the pictures in the form of booklets and also calendars, Ted's last work for Valentines appears to have been a series of idealised country cottages, in 1949 for a calendar.
See Edward H. Thompson: A Phenomenal Talent (http://www.jocelynrichardson.co.uk/thompson/)
Various other expeditions made further examinations of the ruins in the following decades.
About 1890 the United States Consul to Yucatán, EdwardH. Thompson bought Chichen Itza (as the ruins had no protected status then) and moved there with his Maya wife, and spent some 30 years doing amateur archeology there, including dredging the first artifacts out of the Sacred Cenote.
In 1924 the Carnegie Institution and Harvard University began a 20 year excavation project, which included restoring two sides of the Castillo.
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