Glass Reverse Painted Silhouette Portrait Miniature Mrs Hudson Pear Wood Oval Frame Georgian

Georgian profile portrait miniature by Mrs Elizabeth Hudson

A detailed depiction of a lady of fashion circa 1795-97

Silhouette painted on convex glass, backed with composition covered with satin

The back with the original first printed trade label for Mrs Hudson, ink inscribed with sitter Henrietta Newsen* (*or similar).

In good sound condition with no damage or repair, noting a chip to the front edge of the ebonized pearwood frame

Frame height 5,5/8" or 145mm

https://www.wigsonthegreen.co.uk/mrs-hudson-a-lady-of-many-parts/

https://profilesofthepast.org.uk/mckechnie/hudson-elizabeth-mrs-mckechnie-section-3

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Mrs. Hudson, born Elizabeth Chilcot, was the daughter of a

jeweler in Bath. Although no definite christening records can be

found for her, it is assumed she was born around 1750. In 1776

her father referred to Elizabeth in an advertisement, where he said

Hair work by Miss Chilcot, in all extensive forms, fancies & devices,

likenesses, ciphers, urns, altars, trees, &c. Emblematic devices for

mourning, love & Friendship, of rings, lockets, bracelets, buttons,

snuffboxes, &c. Evidently she was not producing silhouettes at this

time. Again in 1789 an advertisement appeared in Birmingham,

which only mentioned her hairwork. However, by 1795 she

advertised that she produced the most perfect LIKENESSES in

Miniature Profile….Profiles in Lockets, Bracelets &c…..superior to

any Thing of the Kind ever yet attempted, and will last for Ages…..

Time of Sitting one Minute only. The ad continues to say that

she also does portraits in wax, as well as portraits on ivory “in

Colours.” She will make house calls if there are at least three or

more customers, and she ends with “N.B. Profiles altered and

dressed in the present Taste.” One wonders if this means she

takes older out-of-fashion silhouettes and modernizes them, or

if she dresses her subjects up in the manner of Mrs. Collins. She,

like several of her feminine colleagues, travelled, and was known

to be in Birmingham, Coventry, Oxford, Worcester and Buxton.

It is surmised that she painted profiles for seven years and after that worked only in wax

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