No this is not true. He alone was painted by Gainsborough; the couple were painted by Reynolds. I quote " A full length portrait of Jerome Knapp, Esqre., in his gown as Clerk of the Company, was painted by Gainsborough at the expense
of the Corporation, and is now in their HalL
There are also portraits of him and his second wife, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the possession of his Son Thomas George Knapp at Norwood, Surrey." http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneouswr02grimgoog/miscellaneouswr02grimgoog_djvu.txt
Further up in the same text it gives the name of his second wife: He married secondly in 1758, at the parish Church of St. Mary,
Reading, in Berkshire, Sarah, the daughter of George Noyes, Esq., of
Southcot, near Reading, she being 23 and he 36 years of age, and by her had issue as follows......
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