Thomas Parkinson (painter)


Thomas Parkinson was a British portrait-painter. He became a student in the schools of the Royal Academy in 1772.

Works

Parkinson was known as a painter of theatrical figures and groups. He also practised regularly as a portrait-painter, and exhibited portraits at the Free Society of Artists in 1769 and 1770, and at the Royal Academy from 1773 to 1789. Some of these were engraved, including:
Among his theatrical groups were:
A number of Parkinson's small theatrical portraits were engraved. Some of the original drawings for these went to the Burney collection of theatrical portraits in the print-room at the British Museum.