Artist: George Gower (1540 - 1596)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
George Gower was a popular English portrait painter. Appointed to sergeant-painter to Queen Elizabeth in 1581. His clean and distinctive style allowed him to paint most of England’s upper class, including Sir Thomas Kyston and Lady Kyston. Gower also painted a self-portrait that showed his coat of arms.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Lord Ronald Gower, Madame de Miolan, 19th century
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Lord Ronald Gower, Le Feu Vidame de Chartres, 19th century
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Lord Ronald Gower, Mousier de Guise le Pere as a young man, 19th century
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Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish, 1598-1664 St. Peter Thomas about 1632 Oil on canvas 92.4 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
George Biddle, George Santayana (profile), 1952
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George Romney, George, First Marquis of Townshend, 1792
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George Vertue, King George, defender of the Faith, after Knoeller, 1807
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George Vertue, Sr. George Lisle, General, 17th - 18th century
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George B. Shaw, George Heriote, 19th - 20th century
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A Young Knight of the Garter, Possibly George Augustus (1683-1760), Later George II of Great
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Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish, 1598-1664 Saint Cyril of Constantinople about 1632 Oil on canvas 92.4
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George Vertue, George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, 17th - 18th century
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Benjamin West - George III 1783 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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George Biddle, Catfish Row, 1936
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William Bradford, American, 1823-1892 Icebound Whaling Ship about 1875 Oil on canvas 50.8 x 76.2
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1796 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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James McNeill Whistler - George W. Vanderbilt 1897-1903 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington 1786-1793 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Ray George, Box I, 1974
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington 1787 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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William Holman Hunt - Mrs. George Waugh 1868 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington c. 1779-81 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Pollock 1793-1794 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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William Hogarth - George Arnold 1738-1740 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1803-1805 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Sir Henry Raeburn - Mrs. George Hill c. 1790-1800 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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John Singer Sargent - George McCulloch 1901 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington c. 1786 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1859 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Edward Savage - George Washington c. 1796 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington c. 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Neagle - George Dodd 1852 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington after 1796 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Allan Ramsay - King George III 1713-84 oil on canvas The Mint Museums English
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington before 1801 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum American
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Francis Hayman - George Dance c. 1750 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1795-96 oil on canvas The Frick Collection American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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NSA Gallery: Icons: A Group Exhibition
Andrew states that I chose ‘Icons’ as the theme of the exhibition, because icons offer interesting visual potential for the merging of symbolism with design. Icons tend to be compact and ‘loaded’ images and can range from traditional symbols of th...
Monash University Gallery: Avant-gardism fo Children
avant-gardism for children is not a celebration of childrens or naïve art. It is concerned with teasing out further possibilities of spontaneous and improvisational artmaking whilst extending notions of moder...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500 – 1650
More than 80 images of Old Master paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and decorative arts objects depicting powerful women are brought together for the first time to reveal much about the context in which they were created. Looking at these r...
Network Gallery: PhotoSensitive Unveils AIDS in Africa Project
Founded in 1990, PhotoSensitive brings together the photographic talents of a number of Toronto-based professional photographers to harness the power of the camera to achieve social goals. Each photograph...
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: Stretch: Works by Artists from North and South America
Comments co-curators Keith Wallace and Eugenio Valdes Figueroa, "Bringing together artwork from different nations within the Americas serves to provide a perspective on the works' similarities and differences. In spite of the virtual demise of n...

Further Artwork and Information:

George Gower Online
George Gower (1732 - 1813) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
George Gower - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
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Wikipedia: Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
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