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Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1693-1749)
HUDSON, Thomas (1701 - 1779)
Date: 1740
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 76.2 x 63.2 cm
Acquired: 1937; Purchase
Accession Number: NMW A 104
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn (1693-1749) 3rd baronet, assumed the name Wynn in 1719 on inheriting the estate of Wynnstay, Denbighshire, where he sat as MP almost uninterruptedly from 1716 until 1749. A Tory and a Jacobite, his popularity and wealth gave him great influence in the North of Wales. His son of the same name, was more interested in the arts than in politics. Hudson was a fashionable London portraitist who produced polished formal likenesses.
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