ABSTRACT
Thomas Gainsborough Dupont, son of Thomas’s sister Sarah, worked in his uncle’s studio, made engravings of several of his works, and after the great artist’s death successfully completed his unfinished pictures. Samuel Reynolds was likewise a man of Devon, son of John Reynolds, vicar of St. Thomas’s, Exeter, by the daughter of a merchant of that city. When, in 1755, Joshua Reynolds had already acquired fame in London, his somewhat younger Suffolk contemporary, and Gainsborough, had still no more than a local reputation, but in the end the two stood practically on equality. With two sons of Edward Lane-Poole, Stanley and a younger Reginald, great-great-grandnephews of Thomas Gainsborough, this account closes. Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole has followed his father and great-uncle in a close study of the East. Intellectual ability was, however, certainly less conspicuous in the Gainsborough than in the Reynolds family, but manual dexterity was undoubtedly greater.
