George Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
1785
- Medium
- pastel on paper stretched on linen
- Dimensions
- 94 × 68.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-1101718
This pastel portrait of George Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper (1738–1789), was made in Florence, the earl’s permanent home, by the most celebrated Irish portraitist of the Grand Tour. Cowper prominently wears the sash and star of the Order of St. Hubertus, a knightly order of aristocratic hunters to which he was inducted in March 1785. It seems likely that the bucolic scene was commissioned to commemorate the honor. Cowper’s hunting dog receives a tender pat on the head and wears a bold shining metal collar inscribed with Cowper’s name.
Provenance
Fund, 2022.136
Registry history
- 1785 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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