Thomas Gainsborough R.A. (British, 1727-1788) "Portrait of Gainsborough Dupont (1754-1797), the Artist's Nephew", ca. 1772-74 oil on canvas unsigned. Antique giltwood frame with oval aperture. 25" x 20", framed 30" x 25" Provenance: Mrs. S. E. Browne by 1856; bequeathed by Miss Emily Sarah Browne, High Wycombe to Mansfield College, Oxford, 1906; Christie's, January 29, 1954, lot 128; Newhouse Galleries, New York; Private collection, Chicago; Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, 1984; Estate of Dr. Carroll Ball, Jackson, Mississippi. Literature: To be included in Hugh Belsey's upcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist's portraits. Notes: The most interesting member of Gainsborough's family is one of whom curiously little is known: I mean his sister's son, Gainsborough Dupont .. He seems to have become a member of the Gainsborough household at an early age... He made good use, however, of his uncle's tuition... Walter Armstrong Gainsborough Dupont the eldest son of Thomas Gainsborough's sister, entered his uncle's studio in 1772, remaining there until the elder artist's death in 1788. He was, somewhat surprisingly for the time and for an artist of Gainsborough's caliber and reputation, the only assistant accepted by the elder man. While Dupont did briefly attend the Royal Academy School of Art, he received most of his artistic training from his uncle, with the result that he adopted many of Gainsborough's stylistic methods. Gainsborough painted his nephew several times, and a portrait very similar to the one presented here is conserved at the Tate, Britain. Both of these portraits, with their eyes of reflective translucence, softly rounded cheeks and chins, hint at the youth and frivolity which contemporary accounts attribute to the personality of the young man. Reference: Walter ArmstrongGainsborough and His Place in English Art, London: William Heinemann, 1898. We would like to thank Mr. Hugh Belsey for his help in cataloguing this portrait.
Thomas Gainsborough R.A. (British, 1727-1788) "Portrait of Gainsborough Dupont (1754-1797), the Artist's Nephew", ca. 1772-74 oil on canvas unsigned. Antique giltwood frame with oval aperture. 25" x 20", framed 30" x 25" Provenance: Mrs. S. E. Browne by 1856; bequeathed by Miss Emily Sarah Browne, High Wycombe to Mansfield College, Oxford, 1906; Christie's, January 29, 1954, lot 128; Newhouse Galleries, New York; Private collection, Chicago; Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, 1984; Estate of Dr. Carroll Ball, Jackson, Mississippi. Literature: To be included in Hugh Belsey's upcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist's portraits. Notes: The most interesting member of Gainsborough's family is one of whom curiously little is known: I mean his sister's son, Gainsborough Dupont .. He seems to have become a member of the Gainsborough household at an early age... He made good use, however, of his uncle's tuition... Walter Armstrong Gainsborough Dupont the eldest son of Thomas Gainsborough's sister, entered his uncle's studio in 1772, remaining there until the elder artist's death in 1788. He was, somewhat surprisingly for the time and for an artist of Gainsborough's caliber and reputation, the only assistant accepted by the elder man. While Dupont did briefly attend the Royal Academy School of Art, he received most of his artistic training from his uncle, with the result that he adopted many of Gainsborough's stylistic methods. Gainsborough painted his nephew several times, and a portrait very similar to the one presented here is conserved at the Tate, Britain. Both of these portraits, with their eyes of reflective translucence, softly rounded cheeks and chins, hint at the youth and frivolity which contemporary accounts attribute to the personality of the young man. Reference: Walter ArmstrongGainsborough and His Place in English Art, London: William Heinemann, 1898. We would like to thank Mr. Hugh Belsey for his help in cataloguing this portrait.
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