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Dupra, (Giorgio) Domenico
(b Turin, 1689; d Turin, 1770). Italian painter. He was a portrait painter who trained under Francesco Trevisani in Rome but was much influenced by the French school of portraiture. From 1717 he was employed at the court of King John V of Portugal (for illustration see BRAGANZA, (7)), though he maintained links with Turin. By 1731 he was in Rome, where he worked for the exiled royal family of Stuart and for many British aristocrats passing through on their Grand Tour. In 1750 he returned to Turin, where, together with his brother Giuseppe Dupra (1703–84), he worked for the royal family. His early portraits are notable for finely painted materials and clothes and often include allegorical embellishments, such as personified virtues and airborne putti: for example his portraits of Maria Antonia of Spain and her husband Victor Amadeus III (both Turin, Pal. Reale) have the figure of Mars and various allegorical symbols in the background. Dupra’s later portraits were influenced by Jacopo Amigoni and Louis-Michel van Loo and are softer and simpler in style, employing pastel colours, as can be seen for example in his portraits of the royal children Charles Emanuel and Maria Caroline (both Turin, Pal. Reale).
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