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George Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
About the Artwork
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
George Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper George Clavering Cowper, 4th Earl Cowper Peter Clavering Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper Katrina Cowper, Countess Cowper Ethel, Lady Desborough The Honorable Monica Grenfell, later Lady Salmond Rosemary Salmond, later Lady Ravensdale Private Collection, by descent ?-2022: (Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., British Art, London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton (Irish, 1729–1808)
- Date
- 1785
- Medium
- pastel on paper stretched on linen
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 94 x 68.6 cm (37 x 27 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 2022.136
More by Hugh Douglas Hamilton in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011240
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