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3 unusual facts about William Armfield Hobday


Robert Lucas de Pearsall

She was the daughter of a moderately successful portrait painter, William Armfield Hobday (1771-1831).

William Armfield Hobday

William Armfield Hobday (1771 – 17 Feb 1831) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist whose clientele included royalty and the Rothschild family.

In this he was disappointed even though patronised by N. M. Rothschild, for whom he painted a family group at the price of a thousand guineas.



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