page_title: Thomas Parkinson (painter)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Parkinson (painter) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary Bradshaw in Cymon by Thomas Parkinson
context_page_description: Thomas Parkinson was a British portrait-painter. He became a student in the schools of the Royal Academy in 1772.
context_section_description: 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:
  William Balmain (by Richard Earlom),
  William Woodfall (by Isaac Jehner),
  Jonathan Britain, forger (by John Raphael Smith), and others.
  Among his theatrical groups were:
  Mr. Weston in the character of Billy Button in the "Maid of Bath" (Incorporated Society of Artists, 1772);
  Mr. Shuter, with Mr. Quick and Mrs. Green, in a scene from "She stoops to conquer" (engraved by Robert Laurie, 1776);
  A Scene from Cymon (Royal Academy, 1773);
  A Scene from The Duenna (Royal Academy, 1774);
  Garrick led off the Stage by Time with Tragedy and Comedy (engraved by Robert Laurie, 1779).
  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.
caption: Mary Bradshaw in Cymon by Parkinson[2]
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