Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hazlehurst, Thomas
HAZLEHURST, THOMAS (fl. 1760–1818), miniature-painter, was a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He practised his art in Liverpool from 1760 to 1818. His work is highly finished and of great excellence. ‘Scribbleriana, by Thomas Hazlehurst, Miniature Painter, with a number of clever sketches interspersed,’ figured in the catalogue (No. 153) of the collection of Mr. Joseph Meyer, sold in Liverpool, 15 Dec. 1887.
[Meyer's Early Art in Liverpool; Bryan's Dict. of Painters (Graves), i. 635.]