Joseph Goupy

Along with his uncle, he was one of the original subscribers to the Great Queen Street academy started by Godfrey Kneller and developed a reputation for reproducing old masters.

He worked consistently for 20 years for John Hedges, treasurer to Frederick, Prince of Wales whom Goupy went on to paint another set of Raphael Cartoons.

Numerous witnesses were called to testify on the good character of Goupy, including John Wootton and Michael Dahl.

It was here that he mixed with fellow artists, musicians and collectors including William Hogarth with whom he campaigned successfully for the granting of copyright to the designers of prints in 1735.

[7] Shortly before Prince Frederick's death in 1751, Goupy submitted several designs for buildings at Kew Gardens that were subsequently realized.

He was also a teacher to an illustrious clientele including Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington, Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, and Augusta, Princess of Wales.

Goupy's subsequent insulting painting, a caricature of Handel as a hog surrounded by symbols of gluttony, is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Goupy died sometime in 1769 'in very indigent circumstances' owing to his care of an old mistress of his, Sarah Wright, 'who became mad [and whom he took] to his own house'.