Gainsborough Dupont (1754-97)
Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821) when Princess of Wales 1795-96
Oil on canvas | 239.3 x 148.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404550
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Caroline of Brunswick married her first cousin, George, Prince of Wales on 8 April 1795. Later in the month the Prince told John Hoppner that the King (George III) wished for a portrait of the bride. In August 1795 Hoppner somehow offended George III and the commission was given to Gainsborough Dupont, who had kept up his uncle's studio in Schomberg House.
The Princess sat for Dupont in June 1795; by March 1796 the portrait was finished, though the frame was not ready for the Royal Academy exhibition of that year and the painting was rejected as a consequence.
The Princess is shown in her wedding dress wearing a miniature of her husband on her breast.Provenance
Commissioned by George III; first recorded when moved to Windsor from the Queen's Apartments at St James's Palace in 1804 or 1805
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Oil on canvas
Measurements
239.3 x 148.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
269.5 x 177.4 x 10.2 cm (frame, external)
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Queen Caroline (1768-1821), when Princess of Wales
