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| Anne Elizabeth Cholmley (1769–1788), Later Lady Mulgrave |
Artist:Gainsborough Dupont (British, Sudbury, Suffolk 1754–1797 London)
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:Overall 7 1/8 x 5 3/4 in. (18.1 x 14.6 cm); painted surface 6 x 4 3/4 in. (15.2 x 12.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
Catalogue Entry
Gainsborough Dupont was apprenticed in 1772 to his uncle, Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), and moved with the Gainsborough family from Bath to London in 1774, entering the Royal Academy schools the following year. He remained in his uncle's studio until the latter's death; as an independent painter, he exhibited at the Royal Academy, was employed by George III, and painted theatrical portraits.
Anne Elizabeth Cholmley was the daughter of Nathaniel Cholmley, member of Parliament for Howsham and Whitby. In 1787, she married Constantine John Phipps (1744–1792), second Baron Mulgrave, of the Royal Navy, who was twenty-five years her senior. She died in childbirth the following year, leaving a daughter, Anne Elizabeth Cholmley Phipps.
This is a small studio replica by Dupont of Gainsborough’s portrait of Miss Cholmley (location unknown), which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1785. Ellis Waterhouse (1953) noted that the MMA work was "certainly not by Gainsborough." John Hayes first attributed the picture to Dupont in 1964, an opinion he reaffirmed in 1990. Hugh Belsey accepted the attribution to Dupont in 1991 (unpublished opinions recorded in departmental files).
[2010; adapted from Baetjer 2009]
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