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Support HPL today through justgive.org. See the justgive.org FAQ page for information about Just Give. If you need additional information about donating on-line or wish to discuss other options please call the Library Director at 781-741-1405, extension 2600. Sale of William Hudson, Jr. "The Old Ship Church" Print : A Fundraising Event As part of its "Images of Historic Hingham" fundraising event to benefit the Library, the Trustees of the Hingham Public Library are offering for sale a limited edition giclee print of William Hudson, Jr.'s 19th century oil painting "The Old Ship Church". Click this link to view the painting image and an order form. You may print the order form if your computer has Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader may be obtained as a free download from Adobe.com. Sales assistance is available by calling 781-741-1405 extension 2621 or by visiting the Library Business Office between 10 AM and 4 PM, Monday through Thursday. A framed print from the sale prints is on display in the Main Entrance Lobby and Gallery area. About William Hudson Jr. [1820-1907] William Hudson Jr., the son of a Hingham, MA shoe manufacturer, was born in Hingham in 1820 and lived most of his life in this historic coastal town. He was a skilled lithographer, painter and photographer. Hudson was active as a portrait painter and lithographer from 1844 to 1856 and exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1845-1847. Barnabas Lincoln and his wife (1842), and William Wilder, son of the Old Ordinary Innkeeper Abiel Wilder (1842). Hudson also painted portraits of Massachusetts Governor John Nixon Biggs and of John Quincy Adams, then serving as a United States Congressman from Massachusetts (1844). Among those who sat for him were Hingham ship captain Hingham buildings rendered by Hudson include lithographs of the Old Colony House (1840) and the First Parish Meeting House (1845 & 1852) and the oil painting of the Old Ship Meeting House (church) in 1847. In the 1850's Hudson gradually gave up painting and lithography to pursue his passion for photography. Many of his early photographs were destroyed in a fire shortly after his death in Hingham in 1907. The original painting of "The Old Ship Church" has been in the Library's collection for many years and hangs in the Library's Harold Davis Periodical Room for public viewing.
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