Boy with a Bird's Nest in a Tricorn Hat
after Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1776
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
930 x 815 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wordsworth House and Garden, Cumbria
NT 866463
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Boy with a Bird's Nest in a Tricorn Hat, after Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), circa 1776. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young boy, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, dressed in a blue waistcoat beneath a grey coat with silver buttons, he holds a tricorn hat and bird's nest in his left hand against a landscape setting with trees.
Makers and roles
after Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist