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Portraits of Abraham and Mabella Acworth Portraits of Abraham and Mabella Acworth
Portraits of Abraham and Mabella Acworth Portraits of Abraham and Mabella Acworth

© English Heritage Photo Library

© English Heritage Photo Library


Portraits of Abraham and Mabella Acworth

Thomas Hudson

Art Funded
1981
Dimensions
127 x 102 cm
Bequeathed by
Angus Acworth through The Art Fund
These portraits were painted at the time of the Acworths' marriage, and are particularly good examples of Hudson's work.

Abraham Acworth (1719-1781) was named after his uncle, Abraham Ball, from whom he inherited a considerable fortune in 1741, and he became a Clerk to the Exchequer. In 1745 he married Margaretta Mabella Buckeridge, then aged nineteen, the eldest daughter of his uncle Abraham's widow by a former marriage and herself an heiress.

Provenance

Descended to Angus Acworth.

Oil

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