![]() ![]() The handling is rather scratchy in comparison with Gainsborough,” Belsey said. Dupont painted in Gainsborough’s style and George III was among his admirers. But Belsey is certain the attribution is mistaken, believing that the most likely painter is Gainsborough Dupont, who was apprenticed to Gainsborough between 17. The Brummell portrait was still clearly labelled as a Gainsborough last week at Kenwood House, where one guidebook states that the sitter “was aged about 10 in this portrait by Gainsborough”. Commenting on works that he has chosen to demote, Belsey said: “There are some quite well-known ones, I’m afraid.”ĭocumentary evidence relating to Gainsborough’s commissions is thought to have been destroyed shortly after his death, creating a verification problem for future art historians. Belsey, a senior research fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a UK research centre linked to Yale University, is a former director of Gainsborough House, the museum and art gallery at the artist’s birthplace in Sudbury, Suffolk, where he helped to build up one of the world’s largest collections of the artist’s work. ![]()
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