Regency Portraits Catalogue
Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois (1756-1811), Landscape painter; founder of Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1793
Pencil and red chalk drawing by George Dance, dated 16 March 1793, in RA library; soft-ground etching (in reverse) by Daniell not included in the Portraits of Eminent Persons; an overworked copy was in 'The Sublime and Beautiful', Sabin Galleries, 1973 (4).
1794
Oil by Northcote in Dulwich Gallery (172) exhibited RA 1794 (65), and mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds published 12 July 1794 and stipple by Leney.
1795
Bourgeois's profile appears in Singleton's oil at Burlington House, 'The Royal Academicians in General Assembly', no. 29 in the key to Bestland's engraving (1802) as 'Sir Francis Bourgeois, Landscape Painter to His Majesty and to the King of Poland'.
c.1795
Watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby in Dulwich Gallery (630), whole-length asleep on a sofa with Desanfans.
Oil self-portrait offered to NPG in 1860 by E. & A. Radclyffe of Pall Mall (Sir George Scharf’s Trustees' Sketch Books, IV, 68 and tracing).
1797
Miniature by William Court exhibited RA 1797 (951).
c.1800
Oil self-portrait in Dulwich Gallery (464), head and shoulders in a painted oval.
1804
Oil by Timothy Collopy engraved by Ridley for The Monthly Mirror, 31 March 1804.
c.1805
Mezzotint, possibly a self-portrait but NPG impression is clipped to exclude lettering (MacDonnell, Dictionary of National Biography, VI, p 19).
c.1810
Oils by Beechey at Dulwich, Soane Museum and NPG 231.
c.1812
Marble bust by Christopher Prosperi in the mausoleum attached to the Dulwich Gallery.
Undated
A miniature attributed to Beechey and called Bourgeois is Dulwich but seems to represent
a young man of about 1820.
Statuette by Westmacott is mentioned in Mrs Desenfans's will (Sir Edward Cook, Catalogue of Pictures ... at Dulwich, 1914, p 320).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
Pencil and red chalk drawing by George Dance, dated 16 March 1793, in RA library; soft-ground etching (in reverse) by Daniell not included in the Portraits of Eminent Persons; an overworked copy was in 'The Sublime and Beautiful', Sabin Galleries, 1973 (4).
1794
Oil by Northcote in Dulwich Gallery (172) exhibited RA 1794 (65), and mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds published 12 July 1794 and stipple by Leney.
1795
Bourgeois's profile appears in Singleton's oil at Burlington House, 'The Royal Academicians in General Assembly', no. 29 in the key to Bestland's engraving (1802) as 'Sir Francis Bourgeois, Landscape Painter to His Majesty and to the King of Poland'.
c.1795
Watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby in Dulwich Gallery (630), whole-length asleep on a sofa with Desanfans.
Oil self-portrait offered to NPG in 1860 by E. & A. Radclyffe of Pall Mall (Sir George Scharf’s Trustees' Sketch Books, IV, 68 and tracing).
1797
Miniature by William Court exhibited RA 1797 (951).
c.1800
Oil self-portrait in Dulwich Gallery (464), head and shoulders in a painted oval.
1804
Oil by Timothy Collopy engraved by Ridley for The Monthly Mirror, 31 March 1804.
c.1805
Mezzotint, possibly a self-portrait but NPG impression is clipped to exclude lettering (MacDonnell, Dictionary of National Biography, VI, p 19).
c.1810
Oils by Beechey at Dulwich, Soane Museum and NPG 231.
c.1812
Marble bust by Christopher Prosperi in the mausoleum attached to the Dulwich Gallery.
Undated
A miniature attributed to Beechey and called Bourgeois is Dulwich but seems to represent
a young man of about 1820.
Statuette by Westmacott is mentioned in Mrs Desenfans's will (Sir Edward Cook, Catalogue of Pictures ... at Dulwich, 1914, p 320).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.