Gainsborough Dupont

Portrait of Gainsborough Dupont by Thomas Gainsborough, now in Tate Britain

Gainsborough Dupont (1754–1797 London) was a British artist, the nephew and pupil of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A..

Biography

Gainsborough Dupont - A Wooded Landscape with Cattle and Herdsman

He painted portraits and landscapes in imitation of the style of his uncle, and also landscapes with architectural ruins, in which he imitated Nicolas Poussin. His principal work is a large picture containing the portraits of the elder brethren of Trinity House, which is in their court-room on Tower Hill. He is, however, more distinguished as an engraver in mezzotinto, and his engravings of some of Gainsborough's portraits are imbued with the very spirit of the painter. The following are his best plates:

• George III., full length; after Gainsborough.
• Queen Charlotte, full length; after the same.
• The Princess Royal, and the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth, full length; after the same.
• George, Lord Rodney, full length; after the same.
• General Conway, full length ; after the same.
• Colonel St. Leger, full length; after the same.
• Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bart., full length; after the same.
• Rev. Richard Graves, half-length, oval; after the same.

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  The three eldest daughters of George III, Victoria and Albert Museum

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  John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 1784, Figge Art Museum

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  Anne Elizabeth Cholmley, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  George III of the United Kingdom, Royal Collection

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  William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, National Portrait Gallery, London

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  William Pitt the Younger

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  Halt of Traveling Peasants by a Woodside, ca. 1790, now in the Brooklyn Museum

References

This article incorporates text from the article "DUPONT, Gainsborough" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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