Thomas Stewardson

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Portrait of Catherine Gordon, Lord Byron's mother, by Stewardson

Thomas Stewardson (August 1781 – 1859) was a British portrait painter.

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Stewardson was born at Kendal in August 1781, the son of John and Anne Stewardson, who were from a Quaker family at Ullsmoor, near Shap in Westmoreland. [1]

He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. [2]

Literary references

Letitia Elizabeth Landon produced the poem "Portrait of a Girl, in the British Gallery, by T. Stewardson" [3] as part of her Poetical Catalogue of Pictures in the Literary gazette, 1823. This is probably Stewardson's "Portrait of a Girl" (traditionally identified as Lady Catherine Powlett, Countess of Darlington). She also includes a poem on " Wikisource-logo.svg A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk ." [4] in her Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures within her 1825 collection, The Troubadour.

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Stewardson, Thomas"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ↑ Paths of Glory. Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. 1997. p. 94.
  3. ↑ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1823). "Original poetry". Literary Gazette, 1823. The Proprietors, Literary Gazette Office, Strand. p. 171.
  4. ↑ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1827). "Child Screening a Dove". The Troubadour, 1825. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. p. 278.
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