Thomas Hazlehurst (ca. 1740 – ca. 1821) was an English

miniature painter A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

. He was born in

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and was a pupil of

Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depend ...

. He exhibited at the Society for Promoting Painting and Design in Liverpool between 1760 and 1818 and at the Liverpool Academy between 1810 and 1812. He made over £20,000 from his paintings but invested badly and died in poverty.Emma Rutherford, ‘Hazlehurst, Thomas (c.1740–c.1821)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> His work is highly finished and is said to be of "great excellence". Some of his work is in the

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and a collection of his paintings of

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is in the City of Liverpool Library.

Personal life

Thomas Hazlehurst married Martha Bentley at Rostherne, Cheshire by licence on 24 Feb 1783. The marriage licence describes Thomas as a "portrait painter", aged 19, a bachelor, of More, Rostherne, Cheshire, son of John Hazlehurst. It seems likely, therefore, that he was the Thomas Hazlehurst, son of John and Sarah Hazlehurst, baptized at Lymm, Cheshire on 20 Nov 1763. Thomas Hazlehurst died in Liverpool in 1821 and was buried at St. James, Toxteth on 19 Jun 1821 (age given in the burial register as 59).Ancestry.com. Liverpool, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1970 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:Liverpool Record Office; Liverpool, England; Liverpool Registers; Reference Number: 283 JAM/4/1

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18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters Painters from Liverpool Year of birth uncertain 1740s births 1820s deaths 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub