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: (100)
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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
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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 Romney George, First Marquis of Townshend oil on canvas 1792
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A Young Knight of the Garter, Possibly George Augustus (1683-1760), Later George II of Great
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George B. Shaw George Heriote 19th - 20th century
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Benjamin West - George III 1783 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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George Biddle George Santayana (profile) Lithograph 1952
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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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Gregor Duncan Portrait Sketch of George T. Eggleston red chalk 1935
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington 1786-1793 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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James McNeill Whistler - George W. Vanderbilt 1897-1903 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1796 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington 1787 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - George Washington c. 1786 plaster bust Boston Athenaeum
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John Singer Sargent - George McCulloch 1901 oil on canvas Boston Athenaeum American
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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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William Holman Hunt - Mrs. George Waugh 1868 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art British
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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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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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Gilbert Stuart - George Pollock 1793-1794 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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Allan Ramsay - King George III 1713-84 oil on canvas The Mint Museums English
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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John F. Kensett - Lake George 1869 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Francis Hayman - George Dance c. 1750 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington after 1796 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington 1795-96 oil on canvas The Frick Collection American
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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1795 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute 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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Rembrandt Peale - George Washington 1859 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington before 1801 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum American
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John Neagle - George Dodd 1852 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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William Oberhardt Portrait of George T. Eggleston charcoal 1949
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George Vertue King George, defender of the Faith, after Knoeller engraving 1807
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George Vertue Sr. George Lisle, General engraving 17th - 18th century
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George Biddle Catfish Row Lithograph 1936
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Karl Godwin Portrait of George T. Eggleston charcoal 1950
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Self-portrait George Henry Harlow (British, 1787-1819)Oil on canvas; 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5
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George Houston Cover of "Twelve Etchings By George Houston", with notes by Neil Munro 19th - 20th century
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George Cruikshank The Last March of the Conscripts: April 7, 1814 Engraving and watercolor 18th - 19th century
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George Vertue George Morley, Bishop of Winchester engraving 17th - 18th century
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Mrs. George Horsley (Charlotte Talbot, died 1828), ca. 1787 George Romney (British, 1734-1802)Oil on canvas;
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George T. Eggleston The Stout Lady for College Humor pen and black ink 1935
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens George Washington bronze 19th - 20th century
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George Cruikshank A Battle of Engravers 1828
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George Cruikshank The Burglary 1838
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George Cruikshank Untitled 1790
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of eight prints 18th - 19th century
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George T. Eggleston "I won't mind this atoll" Cover for Judge Magazine 1929
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George Fuller - Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller (Mrs. George Fuller) c. 1877 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Willson Peale - George Washington at Princeton 1779 oil on canvas Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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John Frederick Kensett - A Showery Day, Lake George c. 1860 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Alfred Stieglitz - Poplars, Lake George 1934 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jasper Francis Cropsey - The Narrows at Lake George 1888 oil on canvas Hudson River Museum American
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Jacob C. Ward - Outlet of Lake George c. 1840 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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George Cruikshank Money Hunting 1823
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George Cruikshank The Dancing Lesson 1824
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George Cruikshank The Dancing Lesson - Pt.1 1822
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Barkley Leonnard Hendricks - George Jules Taylor 1872 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Walter Robertson - General George Washington 1794 watercolor on ivory Cincinnati Art Museum American
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John William Casilear - View on Lake George 1857 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jacopo Tintoretto - Portrait of a Man as Saint George 1540-1550 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Rogier van der Weyden - Saint George and the Dragon c. 1432-1435 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Netherlandish
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Bernardo Martorell - St. George Killing the Dragon 1430-35 tempera on panel The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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John Singleton Copley - George Boone Roupell 1779-80 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Colonel George Lewis 1794 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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THomas Sully - Portrait of George Washington c. 1820 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Sir Henry Raeburn - Portrait of Mrs. George Bell c. 1801-02 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Scottish
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George T. Eggleston Collegiate Types for College Humor pen and black ink 20th century
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George T. Eggleston "I won't mind this atoll" Cover for Judge Magazine ink and watercolor 1929
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George Cruikshank November Etching 1840
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George Cruikshank The Royal Exchange 1821
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George Cruikshank Joe Nighthead and the Mummies 1838
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George Cruikshank The little grey man and the Fairies 1838
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George Cruikshank The Golden Legend 1838
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George Cruikshank Breaking Up Color etching 1826
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George Cruikshank October Etching 1840
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George Cruikshank January Etching 1838
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George Cruikshank December Etching 1838
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George Cruikshank One from a set of twenty-seven prints 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank One from a set of twenty-seven prints 18th - 19th century
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Robert Henri - Mr. George Cotton Smith 1908 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Henry Inman - George Pope Morris c. 1836 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gainsborough Dupont - George IV and Prince of Wales 1781 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Robert Henri - Mrs. George Cotton Smith 1908 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Georgia O'Keeffe - Lake George Window 1929 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Thomas Hudson - George Frederick Handel n.d. oil on canvas backed The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Robert Street - George Washington Deal 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art 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...

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