Career
He was a successful painter and art teacher. He is known as the first African American or French Creole of Color operating in America by whom a self-portrait was foundation In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans, The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Patricia Brady, "A Mixed Palette: Free Artists of Color of Antebellum New Orleans", The International Review of African American Art: 19th Century African American Fine and Craft Arts of the South, Hampton University Museum, Virginia, Volume 12, Number.
3, pp. 5–8. Driskell, David C., Two Hundred Year of African American Art, Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum and Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.