Thomas Hudson
bap. 1701, d. 1779
Portrait painter and art collector. Painted about 400 portraits of members of the aristocracy and landed gentry, political leaders, Anglican clergy, and popular figures in music and the theatre, mostly in the 1740s and 1750s. Apprentices included Joshua Reynolds and Joseph Wright of Derby.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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