12/1/2023 0 Comments Alfred dupont dent married wyckoff![]() ![]() When he died in 1797 he was buried at Kew with Thomas Gainsborough.Īnother grandson, John Dupont was apprenticed as a barber. He became director of the French Protestant Hospital. He never managed to attain the recognition he may have wanted, always living in the shadow of his uncle's genius, and was rejected by the Royal Society many times. He followed his uncle to Bath, where they painted many society portraits and later, after Thomas Gainsborough's death, lived in fashionable Grafton Street, in London. ![]() PhilipĪnd Sarah Dupont, and their son Gainsborough One of his grandsons, Philip Dupont, a house carpenter, married Sarah Gainsborough - the sister of the famous painter Thomas Gainsborough - and their son Gainsborough Dupont was apprenticed to his uncle, and became an artist in his own right. In 1691 he was given the parish of Assington, a little village in Suffolk, where he lived until his death in 1728. After arriving in England, he was ordinated into the Anglican priesthood in 1686 and the following year was granted naturalisation. Philip Dupont, being a Huguenot priest in fear of his life, fled to England in 1685 along with thousands of his compatriots. Many tens of thousands of Huguenots fled France and dispersed to more tolerant countries, including The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain and America. Huguenot priests were either exiled or executed. With the Revocation, Huguenots were banned from public worship, and their children were forced into the Catholic faith. ![]() French Protestants had been under increasing persecution over the past 50 years and this had come to a head with the Revocation of the Treaty of Nantes in 1685, which had previously afforded 'Les Huguenots' a modicum of protection. ![]()
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