Thomas Stewardson (August 1781 – 1859) was a British portrait painter.

Portrait of Catherine Gordon, Lord Byron's mother, by Stewardson

Stewardson was born at Kendal in August 1781, the son of John and Anne Stewardson, who were from a Quaker family at Ullsmoor, near Shap in Westmoreland.[1]

He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.[2]

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon produced the poem "Portrait of a Girl, in the British Gallery, by T. Stewardson"[3] as part of her Poetical Catalogue of Pictures in the Literary gazette, 1823. This is probably Stewardson's "Portrait of a Girl" (traditionally identified as Lady Catherine Powlett, Countess of Darlington). She also includes a poem on " A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk."[4] in her Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures within her 1825 collection, The Troubadour.

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  1. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Stewardson, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. Paths of Glory. Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. 1997. p. 94.
  3. Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1823). "Original poetry". Literary Gazette, 1823. The Proprietors, Literary Gazette Office, Strand. p. 171.
  4. Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1827). "Child Screening a Dove". The Troubadour, 1825. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. p. 278.
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