Gainsborough Dupont

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Gainsborough Dupont is recorded in the collections of Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Yale Center for British Art and National Portrait Gallery.

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. • Illustration — Gainsborough Dupont - A Wooded Landscape with Cattle and Herdsman 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. 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.

Dupont died in London on 20 January 1797, aged 42. He was buried in Kew churchyard in the same grave as Thomas Gainsborough.

• Illustration — The three eldest daughters of George III, Victoria and Albert Museum • Illustration — John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 1784, Figge Art Museum • Illustration — Anne Elizabeth Cholmley, Metropolitan Museum of Art • Illustration — George III of the United Kingdom, Royal Collection • Illustration — William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, National Portrait Gallery, London • Illustration — William Pitt the Younger • Illustration — Halt of Traveling Peasants by a Woodside, ca. 1790, now in the Brooklyn Museum