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A near-life-size portrait of Alexander Thistlethwayte, who was representative of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire" class="extiw" title="w:Hampshire">Hampshire</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="w:House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> 1751–1761, his wife Sarah, and their daughters Anne and Catherine. As the elder daughter Catherine was depicted in pink, which was a colour frequently worn by betrothed women, the portrait could have been commissioned to commemorate her forthcoming wedding. The work probably hung in the family home at Southwick Place, Hampshire, in Thistlethwayte's lifetime.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Thomas_Hudson_(painter)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Thomas Hudson (painter)"><span title="British painter (1701-1779)">Thomas Hudson</span></a>
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circa 1758 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1758-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>.
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>; photographed by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Smuconlaw" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Smuconlaw">Smuconlaw</a> on 29 April 2012, 15:47.