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Thomas Hudson 1701-1779
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Thomas Hudson
- Portrait of George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington (1675-1758)
- inscribed l.r.: T.Hudson/Pinxit and G:E: of Warrington/AEtat: 72:1747
- oil on canvas, in a carved wood frame
three-quarter length, standing, wearing peer's robes, his coronet to the right
Catalogue Note
The sitter was the son of Henry Booth, 2nd Baron Delamer of Dunham Massey, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir James Langham, 2nd Baron of Cottesbrooke. George Booth succeeded to the earldom in 1690. In 1702 he married Mary, daughter of John Oldbury, a London merchant who brought him a fortune of £40,000. The marriage, however, brought him no happiness. They "quarrell'd and lived in the same house as absolute strangers to each other at bed and board". In 1739 George Booth published a treatise on the desirability of divorce for incompatability of temper.
His estates at Dunham Massey passed to his daughter Mary who married Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford.