Sir Francis Bourgeois 1753-1811 landscape painter founder of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London
Medaille de l'Ordre de Merite 12 avril 1791 Pologne

Mausolee de Francis Bourgeois au musee Dulwich Picture Gallery

Sir Francis Bourgeois 1753-1811Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois Dulwich Picture GallerySir Peter Francis Bourgeois National Portrait Gallery
Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois 1753-1811 Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres

Francis BourgeoisDulwich Picture GallerySir 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

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.

Extraits de la Genealogie de la famille Bourgeois de Grandson et Yverdon, dresse par Zabulon Bourgeois, Secretaire du Conseil d'Yverdon, continue par Marc Elie Bourgeois, par Henri Francois Bourgeois, Secretaire du Conseil de Grandson, et par Charles Samuel Bourgeois, Commissaire
actualise et depose a la Bibliotheque Nationale a Berne par Pierre Bourgeois 1897-8 octobre 1971 directeur de la Bibliothèque Nationale Suisse de 1946 à 1962