Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728–1779, German

Title:

George, third Earl Cowper (1738-1789)

Date:

ca. 1769

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

19 3/8 x 16 inches (49.2 x 40.6 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.62

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

unfinished | man | earl | costume | portrait

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Anton Raphael Mengs and his British Patrons (Kenwood House, 1993-06-15 - 1993-09-12)

Publications:

Chaucer Fine Arts, Inc., Old Master Paintings, Maastricht, 7th - 15th March 1987, London - Rome 22nd May - 16th Juyly : Pictura Fine Art Fair, Eurohal, Maastricht, Holland, Chaucer Fine Arts, Lonson, Galleria Gasparrini, Rome , S.l. : s.n., 1987, no. 34, Not Available at Yale

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 156-157, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Steffi Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779, and his British patrons, Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 30, 60-61, no. 7, NJ18 M536 R6413 1993 (YCBA)

Steffi Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779, Hirmer, Munich, 1999-2003, v.1, pp 275-76, no. 204, NJ18.M536 A12 R64 1999 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:411