Joseph Goupy
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Frederick, Prince of Wales
Frederick, Prince of Wales was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria...
, and with his brother Francis, he was a member of the St Martin's Lane Academy, studying under his uncle Louis Goupy
Louis Goupy
Louis or Lewis Goupy was a French painter, portraitist and miniaturist, who studied under Bernard Lens and was active in London by 1710 alongside his brother Charles Goupy. From 1710 to 1733 he lived in King Street, Covent Garden...
. He was a friend of Handel
HANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
, though a caricature of Handel by Goupy (dated 1754, right) may have ended the friendship.
External links
- Joseph Goupy : Oxford Biography Index entry (requires a subscription)
- Joseph Goupy at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Harris, Ellen T. "Joseph Goupy and George Frideric Handel: From Professional Triumphs to Personal Estrangement", Huntington Library Quarterly 71/3 (2008), 397-452.
- Chrissochoidis, Ilias. "Handel, Hogarth, Goupy: Artistic intersections in Handelian biography", Early Music 37/4 (November 2009), 577–596.
- Cambridge Music Handbooks, Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
- Handel caricatured: Joseph Goupy (1686–1770), The charming brute ... (requires a subscription)