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Gaugain, Thomas
(b Abbeville, Somme, 24 March 1756; d 1812). French engraver and print-publisher, active in England. He entered the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1771, with the aim of becoming a painter; he exhibited in 1778–81 at the Royal Academy. In 1780 he began to engrave, initially engraving and publishing his own paintings. Some colour prints that he published were among the few English ones printed from several plates, rather than à la poupée. Gaugain built up a successful business; he bought pictures and drawings to engrave as decorative stipples, such as Selling Guinea Pigs and Dancing Dogs (1789–90), after George Morland, which enjoyed a large sale abroad, and the Sailor Boy after William Redmore Bigg, engraved (1791–2) by Thomas Burke. The decline in the export trade probably affected Gaugain more than most print-publishers, as in 1793 his stock of plates was auctioned. He continued to engrave, notably an ambitious Hogarthian set of Diligence and Dissipation after ten pictures exhibited in 1796 by James Northcote, but his output was much reduced; his best prints belong to his period as an independent engraver.
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