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Benjamin Vandergucht

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Vandergucht became better known as a picture-restorer and picture-dealer than as an artist, and had patrons in high society. He lived for some time in
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In 1779 he married, at Lewes, Miss Egles, niece of Mr Robert Plumer, a churchwarden at St Thomas a Becket Church, Cliffe, Lewes.
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Woollgar, Thomas, Spicilegia II, 338, ‘Ornaments of Cliff Church and Benefactions’ (Sussex Archaeological Society).
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Not Exactly a Connoisseur A New Portrait of James Christie by Benjamin Vandergucht
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On 21 September 1794, while Vandergucht was returning from a visit on business to
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Vandergucht painted a number of portraits. Most were of actors, such as
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the engraver, and one of twins. He studied drawing in
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he became one of the first students in its schools.
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Gerard Vandergucht
St Martin's Lane Academy
Royal Academy
Pall Mall, London
Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
Upper Brook Street
shilling
Lord George Cavendish
Chiswick House
Barnes Terrace
Christie's

Henry Woodward
Catharine and Petruchio
David Garrick
John Henry Johnstone
John Moody
Henry Woodward
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/28071
UK public library membership




Lee, Sidney
"Van der Gucht, Michael" 
Dictionary of National Biography

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