Gaspard Duché de Vancy (1756–1788) was a French artist of the 18th century. He grew up in Vienna and exhibited not only at Paris' Salon of Young Artists (1781), but also at London's
Royal Academy
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(1784). He was particularly active in portraiture, producing images of
Stanislaus of Poland (1784), the secretary of the
Kingdom of Naples
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(1784) and
Marie Antoinette
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, and was also taken on as the official artist of the
La Perouse expedition, on which he disappeared. His skull was thought to have been found off
Vanikoro
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The name ''Vanikoro'' is alway ...
in April 2003, but DNA tests proved inconclusive.
See also
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List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
Nile Kinnick
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References
External links
Exploration & Discovery: 1770–1840 - Lieutenant Blondela and Gaspard Duché de VancyGaspard Duché de Vancy
in the RKD
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1756 births
1780s missing person cases
1788 deaths
18th-century French painters
18th-century French people
Painters from Vienna
French male painters
People lost at sea
18th-century French male artists
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