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Giles Hussey

Also known as: Giles Hussey; primary name: Hussey, Giles
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
Life dates: 1710-1788
Biography: Painter and draughtsman, mainly of portraits, occasionally history subjects; b.Dorset 1710 to Roman Catholic family; d. there 1788; with teacher Damini to Italy 1730-7; won prizes at Bologna and studied drawing and antiquities in Rome and Naples; returned to London; made a living drawing portraits; retired country 1768 and took to theorising; drawings sold in Duane sale 1787, Lugt. 4181, and BM has an album of over 300 drawings from various periods of his life, which came from a descendant of the artist.
Bibliography: ODNB Edward Croft Murray and Sheila O'Connell extensive research notes on Hussey and the BM album, on which Chloe Nelkin largely based her MA ( 2010 Courtauld) catalogue of the BM album, are in P&D (ECM draft catalogue of British drawings, Period IIIa and library) Jonathan Shackleton, A Portrait of Giles Hussey (monograph), 1999

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drawing; album

Museum number: 1953,1110.5.269 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
Production date: 1725-1788

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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.257 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.256 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.7 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.155 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.28 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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drawing

Museum number: 2015,7087.2 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
Production date: 1730-1768

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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.190 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.236 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.313 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.244 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.299 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.265 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.261 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.216 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.235 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.6 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.26 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.108 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.64 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.342 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.148 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.294 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.266 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.274 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.116 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.212 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.60 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.217 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.40 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.94 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.126 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.312 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.267 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.62 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.295 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.110 |
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Museum number: 1876,0510.931 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.41 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.335 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.248 |
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Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.169 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.128 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.9 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.255 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1972,U.514 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.5 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.215 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.281 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.77 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.31 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.319 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.24 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.273 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.292 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.308 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.239 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.132 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.189 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.59 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.343 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.305 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.21 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.105 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.87 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.4 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.149 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.362-369 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.75 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.79 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.238 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.127 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.302 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.351-361 |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.307 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.180 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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Museum number: 1953,1110.5.241 |
Producer name: BIOG32452 Drawn by:Giles Hussey |
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