(c.1640 - c.1725)
Thomas Hawker, portrait painter, lived in Sir Peter Lely’s house in Covent Garden, London, after Lely’s death. He was described by art historian Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse as ‘a close but pedestrian follower of Lely’. Hawker painted portraits of the Duke of Grafton (c.1680/1), Titus Oates and Sir Dudley North. He is probably the same artist called Edward Hawker by George Vertue, perhaps in error, who was still living and aged more than 80 years, in 1721.
