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BLUE MONDAY

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The third Monday of January might be the most depressing day of the year (I doubt it) BUT the name actually reminds us that blue is a quite nice colour, so here we have some blue fashion from the hand of Thomas Hudson, an artist I don’t usually post (I don’t know why), with a very VERY educated eye for fashion details and fabric textures (take a look at all the lace in the portraits above!), and painting women with disturbingly long necks (that I shouldn’t talk about since my neck is disturbingly long).

Hudson was a very popular portrait painter in London and had the peak of his career between 1745 and 1755. Peter Toms, Joseph Wright and Joshua Reynolds (fuck yeah) were his students, so we know he really knew how to teach as well.

Images from top:

Sir Henry Oxenden, c. 1755, Thomas Hudson, Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum.

Anne Parsons, Daughter of Alderman Humphrey Parsons, Brewer and Lord Mayor of London, 1753, Thomas Hudson, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge.

Thomas Hunt III, c. 1765, Thomas Hudson, National Trust, Lanhydrock.

Anne Rolle, Thomas Hudson, Thomas Hudson, Torrington Town Hall Office.

Mrs Emma Harvey, c. 1750-59, Thomas Hudson, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

                                   Atelier de Lesfressange (Series XIII)

1. Francisco Goya “Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain, On Horseback”, 1799 

2. Charles Edouard Boutibonne - Empress Eugénie (1857)

3. Portrait of HM Queen Victoria dated1845–1846, by Sir Francis Grant 

4. Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria by by Carl Piloty and Franz Adam 

5. Madame de Pompadour (“Portrait of a young Amazon” by Giacomo Ceruti)

6. Algérie - Peintre Français  Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet  (1789 - 1863) 

7. Marie Antoinette on a Prancing Horse by Alfred de Dreux

8. In Dublin Bay by Heywood Hardy

9. Idonia in Morocco - The Equestrian Lady by John Lavery