British portrait painter
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.
He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
Literary references.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon produced the poem "Portrait of a Girl, in the British Gallery, by T. Stewardson" 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 . in her "Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures" within her 1825 collection, The Troubadour.
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