DUPONT, Sophia Gainsborough
Sophia Gainsborough Dupont was baptised at Sudbury, Suffolk on 28 September 1791, daughter of Richard Dupont (1759-1837), a maltster of Market Place, Sudbury, and a brother to artist Thomas Gainsborough’s nephew, and his wife Jane née Clarke (1757-1817) of Clare, Suffolk who married in December 1785. Sophia was a sister of Richard Gainsborough Dupont and as Miss Gainsborough Dupont of Sudbury was a member of the Ipswich Society pf Professional & Amateur Artists from 1835, where she was tutored by Henry Davy. In 1851, 59-year-old Richard, 56-year-old Jane and 54 [sic] year-old Sophia were living at Wigan End, St Peter parish, Sudbury, all were unmarried. Sophia Gainsborough Dupont died at Sudbury on 10 December 1856.