Sir Francis Bourgeois
1753-1811
London/Giez/Grandson/Yverdon
Sir Francis Bourgeois (1753-1811), landscape
painter, founder of Dulwich Picture Gallery/London
Medaille de l'Ordre de
Merite 12 avril 1791 Pologne
Sir Francis peter lewis Bourgeois was christened 4 november 1753 Saint Anne
Soho Westminster London and died 8 january 1811. He was the son of Isaac
emmanuel and Elizabeth Gordon. He was the grandson of Emmanuel francois, from a
noble family of Giez, Grandson, Yverdon, Switzerland. He was the painter of the
King of Poland Stanislas in 1791, member of the Royal Academy in 1793, and the
painter of the King Georges III in 1794.
From the Bourgeois's, 1450-2000,
genealogy.
DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY Located across the Thames a few miles from the Houses
of Parliament, Dulwich Picture Gallery's formation is closely linked with the
lives of Noel Desenfans (1744-1807) and Francis Bourgeois (1753-1811), picture
dealers who were commissioned by Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, the last king
of Poland, to assemble a collection of Old Master paintings for the creation of
a National Gallery. Due to the king's forced abdication in 1795 as a result of
Russia, Prussia and Austria's partitioning of Poland, the paintings never
reached Warsaw, leaving Desenfans and Bourgeois with over 180 exceptional
paintings in their possession. After opening the collection to public view from
his home in London, Desenfans willed these pictures to Bourgeois, who bequeathed
them to Dulwich College. Desenfans also left an endowment for the construction
of a gallery, with the stipulation that the noted architect Sir John Soane
(1753-1837) design the new building.
Bourgeois, Sir, Peter Francis, (1753 -
1811) English painter and collector of Swiss parentage. His work as a painter is
of high quality, and he is remembered for his bequest of 371 paintings to
Dulwich College; they formed the nucleus of the Dulwich College Picture Gallery,
which opened to the public in 1814. This was the first public art gallery to be
opened in England, predating the National Gallery in London by a decade.
Oxford Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press 1997.
Bourgeois, Sir,
Peter Francis (1753 - 1811) English painter. He was court painter to Stanislaus
II, King of Poland, and later landscape painter to George III. His principal
fame rests on his art collection, which he acquired from the dealer Noel
Desenfans and left as a legacy to Dulwich College.
Bloomsbury Guide to Art,
Bloomsbury 1996.
Connoisseur and philanthropist. He left his magnificent art
collection (which was originally acquired on behalf of the King of Poland) to
Dulwich College, which comissioned a special gallery at Dulwich, designed by the
incomparable Sir John Soane, to house it. Soane included a mausoleum for Sir
Francis Bourgeois in the building, which is still open to the public.
Sir Francis Bourgeois, peintre de l'ecole anglaise, fut eleve de P-J-de
Loutherbourg et exposa plus de cents oeuvres a la Royal Academy et a la British
Institution de Londres de 1779 a 1810.
Sir Francis voyagea a partir de 1776
dans les Pays-Bas, en France et en Italie. Il devint peintre du Roi de Pologne
en 1791, et membre de la Royal Academy en 1793, et fut nomme peintre attitre du
Roi Georges III d'Angleterre en 1794. La collection de peintures legues a
l'artiste Francis Bourgeois par son ami le sculpteur Desenfans, se trouve au
Dulwich Picture Gallery a Londres, don de Sir Francis, qui laissa aussi une
somme d'argent pour la conservation de la gallerie, ainsi
constituee.
Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs, 1949-E.Bennezit.
Les tableaux de Francis Bourgeois:
1. "Char au champ"
Huile signe Francis Bourgeois/dimensions environs 30cm
de hauteur et 60cm de large/famille Bourgeois/Suisse
2. "Extensive
Picturesque Landscape with Gypsies"
by Sir Francis Bourgeois/Tabley House the
Dining Room/Leicester family/Knutsford/Cheshire/England
3. "Mr. Kemble as
Coriolanus"
by Sir Francis Bourgeois/Sir John Soane's Museum/London
ISAAC EMMANUEL BOURGEOIS
Marriages: Spouse: ELISABETH Family
Marriages: Spouse: ELIZABETH GORDON Family Marriage: 27 JAN 1753 Saint
George Mayfair, Westminster, London, England
ELIZABETH BOURGEOIS
19 FEB 1767
Christening: 25 FEB 1767 Savoye De
Spring Gardens And Des Grecs French Huguwest, Westminster, London, England
Parents: Father: ISAAC BOURGEOIS Family Mother: ELIZABETH
FRANCIS LEWIS PETER BOURGEOIS Male
Event(s): Birth: 19 OCT 1753
Christening: 04 NOV 1753 Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, London, England
Parents: Father: ISAAC EMMANUEL BOURGEOIS Family Mother: ELISABETH
SARAH CATHERINE
Event(s): Birth: Christening: 11 APR 1785 St
James', Westminster, London, England
Parents: Father: EMANUEL BOURGEOIS
Family Mother: ANN
MARY ANN BOURGEOIS
Event(s): Birth: 26 JUL 1786
Christening: 16 AUG
1786 Saint Mary-St Marylebone Road, Saint Marylebone, London, England
Parents: Father: EMANUEL BOURGEOIS Family Mother: ANN
the Bourgeois's genealogy 1450-2000
Emmanuel Francois Bourgeois's children
180: HENRI Samuel Bourgeois, ne a Giez en 1706. Seigneur de Pierre riere le
territoire de Giez. Mort a giez le 16 juin 1758.
181: Francois Louis
Bourgeois. Est alle en Amerique. Vivait en 1758.
182: Jean Nicolas Bourgeois,
ne en 1715. Conseiller et Justicier de Grandson. Juge de Giez. Mort. de la
Foret, oncle. Mort a Grandson le 6 avril 1795. Il a epouse Marie Marguerite
BEAUSIRE, nee en 1722, morte a Grandson le 20 septembre 1788. Accolade 75.
169: Therese Bourgeois. Admise a la Communion a Giez le 16 mai 1739. Morte a
Giez le 17 juillet 1778. Elle a epouse M. TURNER, d'Angleterre.
183: Isaac
Emmanuel Bourgeois, baptise a Giez le 24 fevrier 1726. (note de S./Fribourg; il
fit carriere en Angleterre, une source donne la profession d'horloger). Mort a
Giez le 8 septembre 1793. Il a epouse Elisabeth GARDEN, deces presume en 1768.
Accolade 76.
184: George Bourgeois, baptise a Giez le 28 septembre 1727. Mort
a Giez le 31 janvier 1805. (21 janvier?, 76 ans). Il a vendu en 1791, a son
neveu Francois Frederic Bourgeois 1738-1819, (numero 224), la grande maison de
Pierre et dependances (chateau).
Isaac Emmanuel Bourgeois's children
200: Catherine Bourgeois, baptisee le 1er juillet 1759.
201: Elisabeth
Bourgeois. Nee en 1768. Morte a Grandson le 12 mai 1784.
202: Kity Bourgeois.
Nee a Londres.
216: Emmanuel Bourgeois. Marie en Angleterre. N'a eu que des
filles. Les filles presumees sont: 1. Sarah Catherine Bourgeois baptisee 11
avril 1785. 2. Mary Ann Bourgeois nee 26 juillet 1786. 3. Mlle Kate Bourgeois
vivante vers 1860 selon photographie.
217: Rene Bourgeois. Non
marie.
218: Francois Bourgeois, ne a Londres le 19 octobre 1753 ou il est
mort d'une chute de cheval le 8 janvier 1811. Le roi d'Angleterre, Georges III,
le nomma peintre de la cour. Il legua sa collection de tableaux, ainsi que L
1200.-, au Dulwich College. Ses archives se trouvent au Dulwich College.
English relatives from Sir Francis Bourgeois's/London niece, Louisa Forget-Bourgeois/Liverpool
Tribune
de Geneve 4 septembre 1953
lettre
du 15 fevrier 1962 sur Francis Bourgeois
courrier
2003
Francis Peter Bourgeois 1753-1811
Dulwich Picture
Gallery
National
Portrait Gallery
mausoleum for Sir Francis Bourgeois
George Friedrich Haendel
He trusted in God
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