# Portrait of Mary Anne Jolliffe

**Gainsborough Dupont** (British, 1754–1797)  
after 1788  
oil on canvas  
Unframed: 75.5 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.640. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.640).

## About this work

The only assistant his famous uncle ever had, Gainsborough Dupont apprenticed with Thomas Gainsborough before setting up his own studio. It is often difficult to distinguish the late works of both artists. This painting is among Dupont’s best portraits. He captures the beauty of his sitter with soft, flickering brushstrokes, detailing her frilly collar and impressive hairstyle, curled and powdered according to the current style. This portrait originally hung alongside that of her husband Thomas in the drawing room of the couple’s home, Ammerdown House in Somerset, where Thomas’s portrait still hangs today.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Gainsborough Dupont painted this (after 1788), aged about 34. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Gainsborough Dupont](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/gainsborough-dupont)

British, 1754–1797

Gainsborough Dupont was the nephew of Thomas Gainsborough and his only known apprentice, trained in his uncle’s studio in Bath and then London, where he absorbed his style closely. He made mezzotints after Gainsborough’s portraits and, after his uncle’s death in 1788, carried on the practice in a similar manner, painting William Pitt the Younger several times as well as many fashionable sitters.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: England, 18th century
- The artist was about 34
- Real size: about 30 × 25 in (76 × 64 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 18th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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