Thomas Hudson

Thomas Hudson - Pair of portraits - 4th Duke of Beauforts children

Joseph Highmore (London 1692-1780 Canterbury) Portrait of a gentleman, in a Red Coat Officer uniform Signed and dated 1762 lower left Oil on canvas ...

Philip Mercier (1689-1760) Portrait of Thomas Samwell of Upton Signed Ph Mercier pinxit, Ano 1738 lower right Oil on canvas Canvas size 30 x 25 in (76.2 x 63.5 cm) Framed size 37 x 32 1/2 in Provenance The Collection of Lord Hazlerigg; Sale, Sotheby's, The Contents of Noseley Hall, 28th & 29th September 1998, Lot 62; where purchased by the present owner. Literature Walpole Society, Vol 46, 1976/8 - J.Ingamells and R.Raines: A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Philip Mercier, No. 84 Philip Mercier was born in Berlin, the son of a Huguenot tapestry worker of French extraction who worked for the Elector of Brandenburg (later, 1701, King Frederick of Prussia). Little is documented about his early life, but Vertue tells us that he studied under the French portraitist Antoine Pesne...

Circle of Paul van Somer (Antwerp c. 1577-1621 London) Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Thomas Carey (1597-1634), youngest son of Thomas, 1st Earl of Monmouth Oil...

Frank Samuel Eastman (1878-1964) Self Portrait Oil on canvas Canvas - 34 1/2 x 26 1/2 in Framed - 40 x 32 in Provenance: by descent from the artist Frank Eastman, portrait and land...

John Trotter (fl. 1756-1792 Dublin) Portrait of a gentleman and his dog, seated before a landscape Oil on canvas, Signed lower right 35 x 27 7/8 in
 Provenance 
The Ball Collection, 46 Merrion Square, Dublin, 1903; With Leggatt's, London, July 1972; Private Collection, Hampshire 

Exhibited
 Southampton Art Gallery, Landscapes: An anthology, Southampton, 1979, no. 14 Literature Exhibition Catalogue, Southampton Art Gallery, Landscapes: An anthology, Southampton, 1979, no. 14, pg. 18. John Trotter studied at the Dublin Society Schools circa 1756 where, according to the Hibernian Journal, in 1800, 'his genius was in admiration, and he made drawings, unrivalled probably by any master before or since'. Like many other artists of his generation, he also travelled to Rome, in order to learn from first hand experience the technique of the Old Masters, where he stayed for sixteen years (c. 1759-73). On his return from Italy he set up as a portrait painter in Dublin where he showed his work at a various exhibitions, and continued to paint until his death in 1792. He married twice, firstly to Marianne, daughter of his contemporary Robert Hunter...

Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788) Portrait of Henry Pye, standing full-length before a landscape Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 36 x 28 in (91.4 x 71.1 cm) Provenance The sitter and thence by descent until; Sale, Christie's, London, 26 March 1976, lot 61 (bt. Agnews); with Agnews, London; where purchased by the present owner Exhibited On loan to Southampton Art Gallery (loan no. L96) Benjamin Wilson was born at Boar Lane, Mill Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, the fourteenth and youngest child of Major Wilson, a wealthy clothier, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Yates. He was baptised at St Peter's Church, Leeds, on 20 July 1721 and educated briefly at Leeds grammar school, but after a disagreement between his father and the headmaster he was removed to a smaller school in the neighbourhood. He developed an early interest in painting when his father employed the French artist Jacques Parmentier to decorate his Leeds mansion, and he subsequently received instruction from another French artist, named Longueville, while the latter was engaged in executing historical paintings for Thomas Lister of Gisburn Park in Craven, Lancashire. Subsequently his father's reduced circumstances obliged the young Benjamin to seek a livelihood in London, where a relative provided him with a new suit of clothes and 2 guineas for food. He lived frugally for a year and then gained employment as a clerk in the registry of the prerogative court in Doctors' Commons, where he saved two-thirds of his salary of 3 half-crowns a week. When he had amassed £50 he obtained a more lucrative post as clerk to the registrar of the Charterhouse, which enabled him to resume his artistic studies under the guidance of the master of the Charterhouse, Samuel Berdmore, and the painter Thomas Hudson. He became acquainted with William Hogarth, George Lambert, and other leading painters. In August 1746 he visited Dublin, returning to Ireland in the spring of 1748 to paint some portraits for which he had received commissions. He remained there until 1750, when he acquired Sir Godfrey Kneller's former residence in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, to which he later added the adjoining house, formerly the residence of the physician John Radcliffe. Among his first sitters there were Martin Folkes, Lord Orrery, Lord Chesterfield, David Garrick, Samuel Foote, and John Hadley, the physician. His reputation as a portrait painter soon earned him an income of £1500 a year, and about 1756 or 1757 he declined a partnership with Hogarth.

Wilson's most celebrated portraits include those of the physician and antiquary James Parsons (National Portrait Gallery, London), the poet Thomas Gray (Pembroke College, Cambridge), Lord Lyttelton, Lord Mexbrough, Sir Francis Delaval, Lord Scarbrough, Lord Clive, the marquess of Rockingham, and Sir George Savile...

Thomas Hudson 1701 – 1779 Portrait of a Lady Oil on canvas Image size: 30 x 25 inches Original carved giltwood frame Hudson had many assistants, and employed the specialist drapery ...

This charming British 18th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to noted portrait artist Thomas Hudson. Hudson was most prolific between 1740 and 1760 and, from 174...

Portrait of a young lady. wearing an ivory silk gown with gold brocade trim and a blue silk cloak, painted c. 1747. Circle of Thomas Hudson (1701-1779). Oval oil on canvas laid on to board in a giltwood frame. Provenance: Frost & Reed Ltd, June 1958 Private collection, Somerset UK The beautifully painted silk gown worn by the sitter bears the characteristics of the talented drapery painter Joseph Van Aken (c.1699-1749). Artists such as Thomas Hudson, Allan Ramsay, Henry Pickering, George Knapton and Joseph Highmore all used Aken’s exceptional talents in painting the silk clothes...

THOMAS HUDSON 1701 – 1779 Portrait of Mrs Faber Oil on canvas Image size: 29 x 24 ½ inches Contemporary gilt frame Mrs Faber was the wife of John Fabe...

Oil on panel painting by Lewis Lee Tilley (1921-2005) titled "Opera Matinee" from 1948. Image presents two women at an opera, one in pink leans over to the other in blue to whisper i...

Original signed vintage 1928 oil painting by Peppino Mangravite (1896-1978), "Dora" is a figure of a girl in a modernist landscape with rocks, trees and ocean/sea. Presented in a cu...