Painter, also known as Nan Hudson, who was born in New York but brought up in Washington. She produced landscape, figure and architectural pictures in the manner of Walter Sickert, who admired her work. Went to Paris to study art in early 1890s, meeting her lifelong friend the painter Ethel Sands; spent five years in Eugène Carrière’s atelier from 1896, also studying with Henri Evenepoel. As well as showing in Paris, she shared a show with Sands at Carfax Gallery, 1912, was a founder-member of LG in 1913, a member of WIAC and also showed at London Salon, NEAC, Baillie Gallery as well as Cooling, Goupil and Leicester Galleries. Pictures by her were included in Camden Town Recalled at Fine Art Society, 1976, and The Painters of Camden Town, at Christie’s, 1988.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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