Hudson & Corney

4 and 13 Broad St, Soho, London; upholders and cabinet maker (1790–1811)

Late George III satinwood secrétaire-cabinet recorded, with three-quarter galleried top and two narrow glazed cupboard doors backed by pleated silk above the panelled fall-flap enclosing short drawers, the base with a drawer on square tapering legs joined by a concave fronted platform shelf, bearing the trade label of ‘Hudson and Corney, CABINET MAKERS, Upholsterers, UNDERTAKERS &c. At their Manufactories and Ware Rooms, N.° 4 and N.° 13 Broad Street, Soho. NB. Rout Chairs &c. let on hire.’ Inscription is inside oval Neo-classical frame, illustrated by two simple ladder and splat-back chairs (illus. Gilbert (1996), figs 500-501 and sold Christie's, 29 November 1979, lot 59 and 11 June 1981, lot 103). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793, and Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Named in his list of master cabinet makers, 1803. Hudson, cm of Broad St, took out a Sun Insurance policy on 14 May 1804 for £100 on a warehouse belonging to John Bayford. [GL, Sun MS vol. 431, ref. 762292]

Source: DEFM; Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 (1996).