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"did_you_know": "Gainsborough Dupont was the only assistant that his famous uncle Thomas Gainsborough ever took.",
"description": "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\u2019s 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\u2019s home, Ammerdown House in Somerset, where Thomas\u2019s portrait still hangs today.",
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"citation": "Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936\". The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXIX, no. 11 (November, 1942):132-136.",
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"citation": "Comstock, Helen. \"The John L. Severance Collection at Cleveland.\" Connoisseur, CXI (1943): 61.",
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"citation": "Waterhouse, Ellis K. \"Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough.\" The Walpole Society, XXXIII (1948-1950): 63.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 232, vol. II, no. 6",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "Dorment, Richard. British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986.",
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