Hudson, C. H. (McKechnie Section 6)

Known only from a small profile of a girl in her early teens, painted in line on glass against a stippled base and dated May 1815. The artist may possibly have been a descendant of Mrs Elizabeth Hudson (see Section Three).

The profile, in three-quarter length, is painted to a high degree of transparency. The sitter's features are painted against a delicately stippled background like that seen on the work of Lea, and (similarly) not produced by fingerprinting, but lacking the delicacy of the hatching used by Jane Read to show the moulding of a face about the nose and chin. Some coarse hatching against this background indicates the folds and shape of the fashionable dress of thin material. Hudson has used a stronger line than Lea used to show the outline of the face. A deep shadow on either side of the arm stresses its shape. The dress is rendered in the same style as that worn by Miss Dixon, painted in the same year by Jane Read.

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The profile is backed with white satin, stitched across the back of a piece of card. It is signed, on the piece of paper with which the frame is backed, ‘Painted by C. H. Hudson, May, 1815.'

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