Francis Bourgeois
Sign in to saveAlso known as Peter Francis Bourgeois, Sir Francis Bourgois, Sir Fran. Bourgeois, Sir Fras. Bourgeois, Sir Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, Sir Francis Burgeois, Sir Francis Burgois
painter, art dealer, collector (1753-1811)
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Francis Bourgeois — Google Arts & Culture
Sir Peter Francis Lewis Bourgeois RA was a British landscape and history painter, and court painter to king George III of the United Kingdom.
artsandculture.google.com →Sir Peter Francis Lewis Bourgeois RA was a British landscape and history painter, and court painter to king George III of the United Kingdom. In the late 18th century he became an art dealer and collector in association with Frenchman Noël Desenfans. The pair were commissioned by Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski to compile a collection of paintings, which they spent five years doing, but Stanisław's exile in 1795 meant the contract could not be completed and they were left with a large collection of paintings. Bourgeois outlived Desenfans and bequeathed the art to Dulwich College with an additional £2000 to build a permanent building to house it. This became the Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's first purpose-built public art gallery.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francis
- Family name
- Bourgeois
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Position held
- court painter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Genre
- landscape painting
- Image
- Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois by Sir William Beechey.jpg
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- Commons category
- Francis Bourgeois
- date of death
- 1811-01-08
- date of birth
- 1753-11-00
- Commons Creator page
- Francis Bourgeois
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- member of
- Royal Academy of Arts
- described at URL
- artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F07jz5y
- start of work period
- 1779-01-01
- end of work period
- 1810-01-01
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Francis Bourgeois, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana