After Thomas Hudson, GF Handel, oil on canvas

After Thomas Hudson, GF Handel, oil on canvas

The Royal Collection © 2002, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

This portrait in its distinctive wheat sheaf frame hangs in the room where Handel composed (Composition Room) in 25 Brook Street. It is a copy of the portrait by Hudson dated 1756 (National Portrait Gallery, London) and is fine enough to be considered by some also to have been by Hudson.