[2] Hurleston was trained at the Royal Academy starting in 1769 as a result of a "premium" given by the Society of the Arts.

Their ship took shelter for three weeks in Nice before they completed their outward voyage in Livorno in Italy in February 1774.

[1] There is also a 12 x 12 cm painting entitled Maria and her Dog which is based on the character in the Laurence Sterne novels.

A character called Maria appears in both 'Tristam Shandy and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Sterne.

Hurleston's nephew was a proprietor of the Morning Chronicle newspaper and his son, Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, was also a notable painter.