RA Collection: People and Organisations
Painter and picture dealer, in London. Son of engraver, draughtsman and art dealer Gerard van der Gucht (1696 or 97 - 1776).
Most authorities give his year of birth as 1753 on the basis of his self-portrait signed and dated 1780 giving his age as 27 [Coll.: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas]. However in ‘The Life and Works of Benjamin Vandergucht (1752-1794)’ by Stephen Benson (privately published 2012) it states that he was baptised at St George’s Bloomsbury on 11th October 1752.
Born: 1752
Died: 16 September 1794
RA Schools student from 1769
Gender: Male
Pocket book
1786
Item REY/1/23
Benjamin Vandergucht, London, to Thomas Harvey, Catton, Norwich
2 Jan 1793
Item AND/8/172
Anderdon's list of exhibitors at the 1791 Academy exhibition, and newspaper cuttings
[c.1870]
Item AND/8/9
Cutting from a sales catalogue: Lot 75, Benjamin Vandergucht to Thomas Harvey, Catton, Norwich, 2 Jan 1793
Feb 1863
Item AND/2/146