Thomas Stewardson

British portrait painter

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

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

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

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'Portrait of a Girl, in the British Gallery, by T. Stewardson'
a poem by L. E. L

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 A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk.^[4] in her Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures within her 1825 collection, The Troubadour.

References

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