Artist: Thomas Hudson (1701 - 1779)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Thomas Hudson studied under Jonathan Richardson the Elder and eventually married his master’s daughter. From around 1745 to 1755, Hudson was the leading portraitist in London, receiving some competition from Ramsay. He owned a large studio with many assistants to help him complete his large collection of works. Hudson retired towards the end of the 1750’s, around the time his pupil, Reynolds, was gaining a reputation.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Thomas Doughty - Along the Hudson 1852 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts American
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Thomas Nast, "All Quiet on the" Hudson, 1877
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Thomas Sully - Dr. Edward Hudson 1810 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Thomas Sully - Mrs. Edward Hudson 1814 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Gifford Beal - Autumn on the Hudson 1940 oil on wood Hudson River Museum American
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Thomas H. Johnson - Inclined Plane F, Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. c. 1860 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Bunyon Bristol - Hudson River Scene n.d. oil on canvas Hudson River Museum American
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Julian O. Davidson - The Hudson River from the Tappan Zee 1871 oil on canvas Hudson River Museum American
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George Benjamin Luks - Holiday on the Hudson c. 1912 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jasper Francis Cropsey - The Hudson River, New York 1857-58 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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David Johnson - Montville, Hudson River c. 1880 pencil on paper Arkansas Arts Center American
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Homer Dodge Martin - Storm King on the Hudson 1862 oil on canvas Albany Institute of History and Art American
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Jasper Francis Cropsey - Autumn - On the Hudson River 1860 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Eugene Edward Speicher - Hudson River Farm 1930's oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jasper Francis Cropsey - Washington's Headquarters on the Hudson 1851 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Winslow Homer - "Hudson River" - Logging 1892 watercolor and graph Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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George Inness - Hudson River Valley 1867 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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James Bard - Steamer Syracuse on the Hudson River 1857 oil on canvas Peabody Essex Museum American
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Jasper Francis Cropsey, The Gates of the Hudson, 1891
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George Wesley Belllows - A Cloudy Day (Hudson River: Coming Squall) 1908 oil on fabric mounte Hirshhorn Museum American
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Arnold Blanch, Along the Hudson, 19th - 20th century
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Edward Moran - Henry Hudson Entering New York Harbor c. 1892 oil on canvas The Berkshire Museum American
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Sir Anthony van Dyck - Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson 1633 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Flemish
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Louis Lozowick - Hudson Bridge (George Washington Bridge) 1929 lithograph Hofstra Museum American
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Thomas Hudson - Miss Ashton 18th century oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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George Biddle, Gathering flowers on the banks of the Hudson, 1926
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Frederic Edwin Church - Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains 1848 oil on canvas Albany Institute of History and Art American
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Jasper Francis Cropsey, Autumn on the Hudson, 19th - 20th century
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John Ludlow Morton, View on the Hudson from New Windsor, circa 1840
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John George Brown, On the Hudson, 1867
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge, American, 1820-1910 View on the Hudson Graphite pencil on buff paper Sheet:
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George Biddle, Bringing home the cows on the banks of the Hudson, 1926
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Thomas Hudson - George Frederick Handel n.d. oil on canvas backed The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Coalport Factory, Plate Hudson Highlands (from Bull Hill), America, 1820 - 1830
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Paul Hambleton Landacre, Rima (Hudson Green Mansions), 19th - 20th century
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Antonio Frasconi, Birds from my Homeland with notes from W. H.Hudson"s Birds of La Plata ([New York: Igal Roodenko,] 1958), 1958
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge, American, 1820-1910 View of West Point on the Hudson 1861 Oil on
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W. Hollidge, Christmas in the Wilds - With the Hudson Bay Hunters - p.32 Harper"s Weekly 13 January 1877, 19th century
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Coalport Factory, Plate Crow Nest from Bull Hill, Hudson River, America, 1820 - 1830
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Charles Christian Nahl, Certificate from the San Francisco Fire Department for Henry D. Hudson, September 18, 1858, 1858

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Hudson River Museum: Art and Nature: The Hudson River School
The Albany Institute, founded in 1791, has been collecting Hudson River School paintings for almost 100 years. This is the first time the collection is being displayed outside of Albany. The open...
Hudson River Museum: Boating on the Hudson: Navigating Through History
From Native American dugout canoes, to tugs and barges, this exhibition will examine the effect of boats on the social, cultural and economic development of the Hudson River Valley. Photographs, paintings, models, navigationa...
Joslyn Art Museum: Marsden Hartley: American Modern
IMAGE:
Portrait
1914-1915,
oil on canvas,
32-1/4 x 21-1/2
Bequest of Hudson Walker
from the Ione and Hudson Walker Collection
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New York State Museum: The Course of Empire:Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Landscape Tradition
Thomas Cole, long considered the founder of the Hudson River School and the father of 19th century American landscape as a whole, takes center stage in this exhibition with his seminal five-painting series, The Course of Empire. Commissioned by th...
Frye Art Museum: Hudson River Paintings from the Hersen Collection
The richly painted landscapes reflect a time when the American landscape was relatively unmarred by development. At first glance, the paintings seem simply to represent beauty, repose, and rest. At a deeper level, however, the paintings ev...
Hudson River Museum: Ellen Kozak Paintings: Reflections on a River
Kozak’s vivid palette straddles the cusp between representation and abstraction and her fluid shapes depict continuous change and motion. Kozak paints from observation, but her pairings of colors are not often found in work by contemporary painte...
Hudson River Museum: Red Grooms, The Bookstore and the Late Seventies
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Springfield Museum of Art: JON BARLOW HUDSON: TS UNG TUBE SERIES
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Hudson River Museum: Open Air Sketching: Ninteenth-Century American Landscape Drawing in the Albany Institute of History and Art
Gradually, these drawings were appreciated for their own artistic merit and even produced as finished pieces or presentation drawings. In an era before photography was commonplace, artists also used drawing as a means of rec...
Hudson River Museum: Animal Artifice
None of the images — even the photographs — were created outdoors in nature. They all were carefully orchestrated by the artists in their studios, and many of the creatures portrayed are not even alive. This exhibition forces the viewer to ...
Portland Museum of Art: In Search of the Promised Land: Frederic Edwin Church
In Search of the Promised Land comprises 44 paintings, most of them lent by museums and private collectors. Its features some of the artist’s most memorable and monumental canvases including Niagara Falls from the American Side (1867) from the Na...
Hudson River Museum: Living with Landscapes: Paintings from Private Collections

Among the paintings in Living with Landscapes is Homer Dodge Martin's oil painting A Wilderness Pool, a classic Hudson River School scene that shows Martin's interest in the dramatic elements of wilderness scenery. The work's vertical format empha...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection
Magoons collection of over 4,000 works by contemporary English and American artists, including such major Hudson River School painters as Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford Robinson Gifford and Asher B. Durand, immediately became an integral part...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Leah Gilliam: Agenda for a Landscape
Drawing from this massive archive, Gilliam combines found imagery with footage she shot herself to create a "media landscape" of Mars. Interested in discarded or obsolete technologies and their output, Gilliam puts these images-once widely viewed ...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: Pacific Coast Highway by Richard Sigmund
To walk past the painting is to cross almost the entire width of the highway, and hanging the work on the wall creates the sensation of an overhead view. As an image/object, it hovers between painting, photography, and relief sculpture, and betwee...
Hudson River Museum: Night Moves: Three-Dimensional Photographs by Lynn Butler
IMAGE:
Lynn Butler,
Nocturnal Passage, n.d.,
Stereojet Vectrograph,
16 x 20,
Coll. the artist...
Made in the USA Foundation: American Crafts Project: China Steals Nukes, and Counterfeits American Crafts!
The Made in the USA Foundation has joined T.M. Hoff Handmade in filing the complaint with the International Trade Commission. Joel D. Joseph, chairman of the Foundation said, We have let China walk all over us. China steals our nuclear weapons ...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
Hudson River Museum: Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks,
Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks and related programs are made possible by AOL Time Warner and Ford Motor Company. Additional support is provided by the Glen Eagles Foundation, Cone-Laumont Editions, Ltd., Laumont Labs, and Time Life Photo L...
Amon Carter Museum: The Artist and the American West: A Century of Western Art
This special exhibition celebrates forty years of collecting outstanding examples of the art of the American West. Beginning with an early view (1826) of Hudson’s Bay by Peter Rindisbacher and moving forward to a photograph of ...
GalleryPrint: Call for Entries: Botanical Photography Awards 2002
All Semifinalists participate in the GalleryPrint / Las Quinta Botanical Photography exhibit in Albuquerque, NM, on the GalleryPrint website, and receive award certificates. The Best of Competition winner r...
Hudson River Museum: Fun City: Celebrating the Life of Ralph Fasanella
The exhibit will examine different topics from Fasanella's oeuvre. These include scenes of Westchester County, baseball games, street festivals, political rallies and election campaigns. A socially-conscious artist, Fasanella's works a...
Van Gogh Museum: American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920

Although the artists were familiar with and reacted to European art, they simultaneously developed their own individual style. To shed light on the various artistic currents the exhibition is organized around themes such as American Icons, Impress...
artandphotographs: Edgar Martins/Mia Salvato: New Work
Born in Portugal, Martins was brought up in Macau. He completed his Masters at the Royal College of Art, receiving the Thames & Hudson/RCA 2002 Book Art Prize for his photography work "Black Holes and Other Inconsistencies". The subjects o...
Casa Del Arte: smARTmarkt: Summer Smalls
With Summer Smalls, smARTmarkt continues its curation of very small original & fine art works. 100 artists working in and around the Hudson Valley and New York City, as well as from around the world, were invited and encouraged to create spontaneo...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Welded! Sculpture of the Twentieth Century
Welding will be shown in all of its variations as cut, bent, crushed and painted metal that is stable or that moves, that includes sound and water, that is r...
Oakland Museum of California: A Legacy of Early California Paintings: The Shumate Collection
The Shumate Collection represents a veritable Who‚s Who of 19th and early 20th century California painters. Few of these paintings have been seen in other exhibitions or publications. The paintings, primarily oils but also watercolor and gouache, ...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Images for Eternity: MEXICAN TOMB FIGURES
Both exhibits will open with a reception on Friday, Jan. 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Thorne gallery. The reception will feature a walk through the exhibit with Stephen L. Whittington, director of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine,...
Walter Phillips Gallery: First Descent
The most widely known art production in snowboard culture is its photography. The work ranges from portraits to end-of-the-day shots by internationally known photographers from Canada and the US, such as Mark Gallup, Trevor Graves and Dano Pend...
Hudson River Museum: The Magic of Light: Artists Focusing on Non-Traditional Media
The Magic of Light displays the work of both established and emerging American artists. James Turrell, part of the Light-and-Space movement of the 1960s and 1970s along with Robert Irwin, works with pure light, while his main goal is the viewer...

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