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Gainsborough Dupont (20 December 1754 – 20 January 1797) was a British artist, the nephew and pupil of
Dupont was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, on 20 December 1754
the eldest son of Thomas Gainsborough's sister Sarah, and her husband Philip Dupont. In 1772 he was apprenticed to Gainsborough, for whom he continued to work until the latter's death in 1788. He was the only assistant Gainsborough is ever known to have employed. He also trained at the Royal Academy Schools, where he became a student in March 1775.
Dupont took over Gainsborough's studio in Schomberg House in 1788, and moved to Bloomsbury in 1793, following the death of Gainsborough's widow.
He painted portraits and landscapes in a style of similar to that of his uncle, and also landscapes with architectural ruins, in which he imitated
File:Daughters of George III by Dupont.jpg, ''The three eldest daughters of George III'',
Gainsborough Dupont (20 December 1754 – 20 January 1797) was a British artist, the nephew and pupil of Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of ...
, R.A.
Biography
Dupont was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, on 20 December 1754
the eldest son of Thomas Gainsborough's sister Sarah, and her husband Philip Dupont. In 1772 he was apprenticed to Gainsborough, for whom he continued to work until the latter's death in 1788. He was the only assistant Gainsborough is ever known to have employed. He also trained at the Royal Academy Schools, where he became a student in March 1775.
Dupont took over Gainsborough's studio in Schomberg House in 1788, and moved to Bloomsbury in 1793, following the death of Gainsborough's widow.
He painted portraits and landscapes in a style of similar to that of his uncle, and also landscapes with architectural ruins, in which he imitated Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...
. His principal work is a large picture containing the portraits of the elder brethren of Trinity House
"Three In One"
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, founding_location = Deptford, London, England
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, which is in their court-room on Tower Hill.Bryan 1886–89
Prints
From 1779 onwards, Dupont made a series of mezzotints after Gainsborough's portraits. They include: *'' George III.'', full length. *''Queen Charlotte
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'', full length.
*''The Princess Royal
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, and the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth
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'', full length.
*'' George, Lord Rodney'', full length.
*'' General Conway'', full length.
*'' Colonel St. Leger'', full length.
*''Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley
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, Bart.''.
*''Rev. Richard Graves
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Early life
Graves was born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Glouce ...
'', half-length, oval.
Death
Dupont died in London on 20 January 1797, aged 42. He was buried in Kew churchyard in the same grave as Thomas Gainsborough.Works
Victoria and Albert Museum
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File:1stMarquessOfBute1783.jpg, ''John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
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'', 1784, Figge Art Museum
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File:Anne Elizabeth Cholmley by Dupont.jpg, ''Anne Elizabeth Cholmley'', Metropolitan Museum of Art
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File:George III of the United Kingdom 404383.jpg, ''George III of the United Kingdom'', Royal Collection
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File:William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville by Gainsborough Dupont.jpg, ''William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
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'', National Portrait Gallery, London
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File:William Pitt the Younger 2.jpg, ''William Pitt the Younger
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File:Brooklyn Museum - Halt of Traveling Peasants by a Woodside - Gainsborough Dupont.jpg, ''Halt of Traveling Peasants by a Woodside'', ca. 1790, now in the Brooklyn Museum
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* 1754 births 1797 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters English engravers English portrait painters Thomas Gainsborough {{UK-painter-18thC-stub