Published on 01 September 2025

Museum sale to the British Museum

We are pleased that these two oils on paper by Gainsborough Dupont, once thought to be by his uncle Thomas Gainsborough, have been sold to the British Museum. Part of a rare group of only thirteen landscape oil sketches by the artist, they were probably conceived as original works of art and are wonderfully spontaneous in execution.

Gainsborough Dupont, landscape oil sketch on paper sold to the British Museum
Gainsborough Dupont, landscape oil sketch detail, one of thirteen known worksGainsborough Dupont, landscape oil sketch, formerly attributed to Thomas Gainsborough