Thomas Parkinson

Thomas Parkinson ( born 10 December 1744, Oxford, died c. 1789) was a British portrait-painter. He became a student in the schools of the Royal Academy in 1772.

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Thomas Parkinson ( born 10 December 1744, Oxford, died c. 1789) was a British portrait-painter. He became a student in the schools of the Royal Academy in 1772. Works Parkinson was known as a painter of theatrical figures and groups. He also practised regularly as a portrait-painter, and exhibited portraits at the Free Society of Artists in 1769 and 1770, and at the Royal Academy from 1773 to 1789. Some of these were engraved, including: William Balmain (by Richard Earlom), William Woodfall (by Isaac Jehner), Jonathan Britain, forger (by John Raphael Smith), and others.

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