32-1364: Thomas or Tom Hudson may refer to: Thomas Hudson (painter) (1701–1779), British portraitist Thomas Hudson (pentathlete) (born 1935), British Olympic modern pentathlete Thomas Hudson (poet) (died c. 1605), part of the Castalian Band at the court of James VI of Scotland Thomas H. Hudson (born 1946), member of the Louisiana State Senate Thomas J. Hudson (born 1961), Canadian genome scientist Thomas Jefferson Hudson (1839–1923), U.S. Representative from Kansas Thomas P. Hudson (1852–1909), American-English stage manager in Australia Thomas Hudson (MP) (1772–1852), British Member of Parliament for Evesham Thomas Hudson (songwriter) (1791–1844), English performer and writer of comic songs Tom Hudson (programmer) , American computer programmer Tom Hudson (English actor) (born 1986), English actor Tom Hudson (French actor) (born 1994), French actor Tom Hudson (art educator) (1922–1997), British art educationalist Tom Hudson (rugby union) (born 1994), English rugby union player [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
64-540: A group of semi-naked environmental campaigners were drenched in fake oil, in the Ondaatje Wing main hall, as part of a protest against BP's sponsorship of a collection of pieces in the gallery. The protest performance piece, which was entitled Crude Truth, involve a clothed protester reciting a monologue in which they called upon arts organisations to sever ties with companies "funding extinction". Three activists covered in black liquid lay down for about five minutes on
96-872: A personal account of the event by James Donald Milner , then the Assistant Director of the Gallery. The collections of the National Portrait Gallery were stored at Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire during the Second World War , along with pieces from the Royal Collection and paintings from Speaker's House in the Palace of Westminster . The second extension was funded by Sir Christopher Ondaatje and
128-450: A plastic sheet before standing up again, wiping themselves down with towels, and cleaning up after themselves. The action, which was applauded by onlookers, passed uninterrupted. A major programme of refurbishment with the project name of "Inspiring People" led to the gallery's closure from 2020 to 2023. Some galleries closed by late May 2020, with full closure by July 2020. There were a number of planned exhibitions and collaborations around
160-537: A public forecourt. The gallery's main entrance was moved and features three new 4 m (13 ft) bronze doors which carry 45 portraits of un-named women, drawn by Tracey Emin . The gallery was reopened by the Princess of Wales on 20 June 2023 and she met Sir Paul McCartney whose photography exhibition was the first major show in the new space and viewed the Portrait of Omai by Sir Joshua Reynolds , which
192-465: A revolver, then shot himself in the mouth, dying instantly. His wife died in hospital several hours later. Both were American nationals who had lived in Hove for around 10 years. Evidence at the inquest suggested that Dawson, a wealthy and well-travelled man, was suffering from a persecutory delusion . The incident came to public attention in 2010 when the Gallery's archive was put on-line as this included
224-530: A £12m Heritage Lottery Fund grant, and was designed by the London-based architects Edward Jones and Jeremy Dixon . The Ondaatje Wing opened in 2000 and occupies a narrow space of land between the two 19th-century buildings of the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, and is notable for its immense, two-storey escalator which takes visitors to the earliest part of the collection,
256-740: Is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people . When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square , and adjoining the National Gallery . The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset . It
288-560: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Hudson (painter) Thomas Hudson (1701–1779) was an English painter, almost exclusively of portraits. Hudson was born in Devonshire in 1701. His exact birthplace is unknown. He studied under Jonathan Richardson in London and, against the latter's wishes, married Richardson's daughter at some point before 1725. Hudson
320-453: Is the Chandos portrait , the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare although there is some uncertainty about whether the painting actually is of the playwright. Not all of the portraits are exceptional artistically, although there are self-portraits by William Hogarth , Sir Joshua Reynolds and other British artists of note. Some, such as the group portrait of the participants in
352-715: Is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people , selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture. One of its best-known images
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#1732780996998384-603: The Somerset House Conference of 1604, are important historical documents in their own right. Often, the curiosity value is greater than the artistic worth of a work, as in the case of the anamorphic portrait of Edward VI by William Scrots , Patrick Branwell Brontë 's painting of his sisters Charlotte , Emily and Anne , or a sculpture of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in medieval costume. Portraits of living figures were allowed from 1969. In addition to its permanent galleries of historical portraits,
416-620: The Tudor portraits. In January 2008, the Gallery received its largest single donation to date, a £5m gift from the US billionaire Randy Lerner . In January 2012, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge , announced the National Portrait Gallery as one of her official patronages. Her portrait was unveiled in January 2013. The gallery holds nearly 20 portraits of Harriet Martineau and her brother James Martineau , whose great-nephew Francis Martineau Lupton
448-513: The NPG website, and placed them on Misplaced Pages's sister media repository site, Wikimedia Commons . The gallery's position was that it held copyright in the digital images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and that it had made a significant financial investment in creating these digital reproductions. Whereas single-file low resolution images were already available on its website, the images added to Wikimedia Commons were re-integrated from separate files after
480-582: The National Portrait Gallery exhibits a rapidly changing selection of contemporary work, stages exhibitions of portrait art by individual artists and hosts the annual BP Portrait Prize competition. The three people largely responsible for the founding of the National Portrait Gallery are commemorated with busts over the former main entrance on St Martin's Place. At the centre is Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope , with his supporters on either side, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (to Stanhope's left) and Thomas Carlyle (to Stanhope's right). It
512-782: The UK to display parts of the collection while the gallery was closed. These included exhibitions starting at the York Art Gallery in 2021, the Holburne Museum , Bath (Tudor portraits, 2022), and museums in Liverpool, Newcastle, Coventry and Edinburgh, which later toured to other venues. Other partners included the National Trust , the National Maritime Museum and the National Gallery . In London,
544-573: The Younger , Sir Anthony van Dyck , Sir Peter Lely , Sir Godfrey Kneller , Louis François Roubiliac , William Hogarth , Sir Joshua Reynolds , Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir Francis Chantrey . The National Portrait Gallery is an executive non-departmental public body of the UK Government, sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport . The National Portrait Gallery's total income in 2007–2008 amounted to £16,610,000,
576-428: The building, the creation of new public spaces, a more welcoming visitor entrance and public forecourt, and a new state of the art Learning Centre". The East Wing returned to being gallery space, with its own new street entrance. The refurbishment cost £41 million, was designed by the architect Jamie Fobert and Purcell and the main contractor was Gilbert-Ash. It added new galleries, learning spaces, restaurants and
608-635: The collection moved to Exhibition Road and buildings managed by the Royal Horticultural Society . Following a fire in those buildings, the collection was moved in 1885, this time to the Bethnal Green Museum . This location was ultimately unsuitable due to its distance from the West End , condensation and lack of waterproofing. Following calls for a new location to be found, the government accepted an offer of funds from
640-423: The end of the 1750s. William Hickey described the elderly Hudson, "His figure was rather grotesque, being uncommonly low in stature, with a prodigious belly, and constantly wearing a large white bushy periwig. He was remarkably good tempered, and one of my first-rate favourites, notwithstanding that he often told me I should certainly be hanged.". He died at Twickenham in 1779. His extensive private art collection
672-895: The gallery had just acquired jointly with the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for £50 million. The gallery reopened to the public on 22 June. In 2024 the Inspiring People project was short-listed for the RIBA Stirling prize . In addition to the busts of the three founders of the gallery over the entrance, the exterior of two of the original 1896 buildings are decorated with stone busts of eminent portrait artists, biographical writers and historians. These busts, sculpted by Frederick R. Thomas , portray James Granger , William Faithorne , Edmund Lodge , Thomas Fuller , The Earl of Clarendon , Horace Walpole , Hans Holbein
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#1732780996998704-497: The majority of which came from government grant-in-aid (£7,038,000) and donations (£4,117,000). As of 31 March 2008, its net assets amounted to £69,251,000. In 2008, the NPG had 218 full-time equivalent employees. It is an exempt charity under English law. On 14 July 2009, the National Portrait Gallery sent a demand letter alleging breach of copyright against an editor-user of Misplaced Pages, who downloaded thousands of high-resolution reproductions of public domain paintings from
736-509: The new building was completed. The gallery opened at its new location on 4 April 1896. The first extension, in 1933, was funded by Lord Duveen , and resulted in the wing by the architect Sir Richard Allison on a site previously occupied by St George's Barracks running along Orange Street. In February 1909, a murder–suicide took place in a gallery known as the "Arctic Room". In an apparently planned attack, John Tempest Dawson, aged 70, shot his 58-year-old wife, Nannie Caskie, from behind with
768-501: The philanthropist William Henry Alexander. Alexander donated £60,000 followed by another £20,000, and also chose the architect, Ewan Christian . The government provided the new site on St Martin's Place, adjacent to the National Gallery , and £16,000. The buildings, faced in Portland stone , were constructed by Shillitoe & Son. Both the architect, Ewan Christian, and the gallery's first director, George Scharf , died shortly before
800-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Hudson&oldid=1209366412 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
832-656: The shops and restaurants closed, but the Heinz Archive and Library remained open. Another programme, called "Coming Home", loaned portraits of individual people to museums in their home towns. Exhibitions also travelled to Japan, Australia and the United States. The "Inspiring People" project "comprises a comprehensive redisplay of the Collection from the Tudors to now, combined with a complete refurbishment of
864-415: The user "found a way to get around their software and download high-resolution images without permission." In 2012, the Gallery licensed 53,000 low-resolution images under a Creative Commons licence , making them available free of charge for non-commercial use. A further 87,000 high-resolution images are available for academic use under the gallery's own licence that invites donations in return; previously,
896-546: Was Stanhope who, in 1846 as a Member of Parliament (MP), first proposed the idea of a National Portrait Gallery. It was not until his third attempt, in 1856, this time from the House of Lords, that the proposal was accepted. With Queen Victoria's approval, the House of Commons set aside a sum of £2000 to establish the gallery. As well as Stanhope and Macaulay, the founder trustees included Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Ellesmere . It
928-530: Was most prolific between 1740 and 1760 and, from 1745 until 1755 was the most successful London portraitist. He had many assistants, and employed the specialist drapery painter Joseph Van Aken . Joshua Reynolds , Joseph Wright and the drapery painter Peter Toms were his students. Hudson visited the Low Countries in 1748 and Italy in 1752. In 1753 he bought a house at Cross Deep, Twickenham, just upstream from Pope 's Villa. He retired toward
960-638: Was sold off in three separate sales. Many of Hudson's works may be seen in art galleries throughout the United Kingdom. They include the National Portrait Gallery , the National Maritime Museum , Tate , Barnstaple Guildhall , Foundling Museum and the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery . Hudson died in 1779, aged 77 or 78. National Portrait Gallery (London) The National Portrait Gallery ( NPG )
992-689: Was the Duchess's great-great-grandfather. Bodelwyddan Castle 's partnership with the National Portrait Gallery came to an end in 2017 after its funding was cut by Denbighshire County Council . In June 2017 it was announced that the NPG has been awarded funding of £9.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its major transformation programme Inspiring People , the Gallery's biggest ever development. The Gallery had already raised over £7m of its £35.5m target. The building works were scheduled to start in 2020. In October 2019,
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1024-435: Was the latter who donated the Chandos portrait to the nation as the gallery's first portrait. Carlyle became a trustee after the death of Ellesmere in 1857. For the first 40 years, the gallery was housed in various locations in London. The first 13 years were spent at 29 Great George Street , Westminster . There, the collection increased in size from 57 to 208 items, and the number of visitors from 5,300 to 34,500. In 1869,
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