Gainsborough Dupont (1754-1797)

• Was a British artist.
• He was the nephew and pupil of Thomas Gainsborough.  
• 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.
• He 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.
• He 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.
• 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.
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