Sarah Dupont

Museum record 105600: Sarah Dupont by Thomas Gainsborough. A verified entry point for discovery.

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Although Thomas Gainsborough is known best for dazzling and opulent full-length portraits of society figures, the artist’s smaller paintings of his family are notable for their directness and intimacy. The subject of this portrait is the artist’s older sister, who married a carpenter in the siblings’ hometown of Sudbury in Suffolk, England, where Gainsborough established himself as a portrait painter before moving on to the fashionable cities of Bath and London. MyArtTaste includes museum record 105600 a…