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William Doughty

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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William Doughty, portrait painter and printmaker, was recommended to Sir Joshua Reynolds by the Revd William Mason and, on being accepted, lived in Reynolds's house in Leicester Fields, Westminster, having enrolled as his pupil from 1775. He exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy's exhibition in 1776. Doughty returned to London in 1778. He produced a series of excellent mezzotints after Reynolds, who advised Doughty to make a career as a mezzotinter. Doughty was however ambitious for recognition as a painter, and as his wife had friends in Bengal they decided to seek their fortune there. They embarked in 1780, but they both died on the journey.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

William Doughty

Date

c.1776

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 22.9 x W 19.1 cm

Accession number

2513

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1931

Work type

Painting

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