Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières or (27 November 1775 - 27 May 1820) was a Dutch-Danish merchant of French descent, landowner and amateur artist. He is remembered for his drawings and watercolours of landscapes from North Zealand.
Biography Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières was born on 27 November 1775 in The Hague, the son of the counselor Paulinus Philippus Henricus de Dompierre de Joncquières (13 August 1744 – 12 May 1822) and Cecile de Coninck (4 November 1748 – 12 June 1819). Ancestors of his father had fled from France to Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.Jonquieres (Jean François de Dompierre de) in Van der Aa e.a., Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden He achieved a doctoral degree in law from the Leiden University. The family moved to Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars. His father purchased Folehavegård at Hørsholm in 1798.
Dompierre de Jonquières worked as a merchant. He died unmarried and without children in 1820.
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