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Gainsborough Dupont: William Townshend   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Gainsborough Dupont  (1754–1797)  wikidata:Q5517292
 
Gainsborough Dupont
Description British painter and mezzotint engraver
Date of birth/death 20 December 1754 / 24 December 1754 Edit this at Wikidata 20 January 1797 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Sudbury London
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q5517292
Title
William Townshend
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Portrait of William Towns(h)end (1741–1823) of Fulham House, Fulham, London, the maternal uncle of Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner. His mother Ann Smith married John Townsend, and had three children: William, of Fulham House (1741–1823; see the monumental inscription in Fulham's church); Mary Barnard, once of Lower Grosvenor Street and then of Fulham and Little Chelsea (died 1842, aged 90), the relict of Rev. Benjamin Barnard (died 1815, aged c. 80), Prebend of Peterborough); and Mrs (Katherine) Bisse (died 1816) who was Col. Challoner's mother. In his will and memorial tablet in Fulham his name is spelt "Townsend" (PROB 11/1673/168).
Date circa 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 75 cm (29.5 in); width: 62.1 cm (24.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,75U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,62.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q16981573
Accession number
1997.023
Object history
  • Up to 1931: Owned by Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner, nephew of the sitter, and his heirs.
  • 11 March 1931: Sold (incorrectly attributed as a painting by Thomas Gainsborough) by Cecil Fane De Salis through Christie's (lot 101) to John "Jack" Sampson, son of William Walker "Bill" Sampson (1864–1929), for £73 10s.
  • 1932: In the possession of Arthur De Casseres Gallery, 157a New Bond Street, London: see The Connoisseur (1932), vol. LXXXIX, issue 369, p. 350.
  • Unknown date: Acquired by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • January 1997: Purchased by Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, UK, with a grant from the Lady Charlotte Bonham-Carter Charitable Trust.
References [1].
Source/Photographer Photograph taken by Rodolph2 on 4 March 2014 of a 1931 black-and-white photograph of the original painting.
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