He had many assistants, and employed the specialist drapery painter Joseph Van Aken.

[1] Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright and the drapery painter Peter Toms[3] were his students.

[1] In 1753, he bought a house at Cross Deep, Twickenham, just upstream from Pope's Villa.

William Hickey described the elderly Hudson, "His figure was rather grotesque, being uncommonly low in stature, with a prodigious belly, and constantly wearing a large white bushy periwig.

He was remarkably good tempered, and one of my first-rate favourites, notwithstanding that he often told me I should certainly be hanged.