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accession number: 1971.2
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Portrait of George Pitt, First Baron Rivers, 1769. Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788). Oil on canvas; framed: 261 x 181 x 9 cm (102 3/4 x 71 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 234.3 x 154.3 cm (92 1/4 x 60 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1971.2
title: Portrait of George Pitt, First Baron Rivers
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creation date: 1769
creation date earliest: 1769
creation date latest: 1769
current location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts
creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture: England, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - British before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 261 x 181 x 9 cm (102 3/4 x 71 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 234.3 x 154.3 cm (92 1/4 x 60 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1971
opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
title: Vittorio Alfieri: Aristocratico Ribelle (1749-1803)
opening date: 2003-10-08T00:00:00
Vittorio Alfieri: Aristocratico Ribelle (1749-1803). Turin State Archives, Torino, Italy (October 8, 2003-January 12, 2004).
title: CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation)
opening date: 2006-04-03T00:00:00
CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 3-June 5, 2006).
title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020)
opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00
British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1769).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Works by Old Masters (Winter Exhibition).Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1881).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy (Winter Exhibition) Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1951-1952).', 'opening_date': '1951-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
George Pitt, First Lord Rivers [1721-1803], Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire, by descent to his grandson, William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Lord Rivers
date: 1769-1803
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William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Lord Rivers [1777-1831], Rushmore, Dorset, by descent to Horace, 6th Lord Rivers
date: 1803-1831
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Horace, 6th Lord Rivers [1814-1880], by descent to his cousin, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt
date: 1831-1880
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Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt [1827-1900], by descent to his grandson George Henry Lane-Fox-Pitt-Rivers
date: 1880-1900
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Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt was the second son of Marcia Lucy [died 1822], the youngest sister of George, 2nd Lord Rivers.
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George Henry Lane-Fox-Pitt-Rivers [1890-1966], Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, passed to his common-law wife Stella
date: 1900-1966
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Stella Pitt-Rivers, sold to E.V. Thaw
date: 1966-1970
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* Stella was the common-law wife of George Henry Lane-Fox-Pitt-Rivers, and later married M. Robert Maumen
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(E. V. Thaw, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1970-1971
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1971-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Belsey, Hugh. Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 2019. p. 712-714.
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Brock-Arnold, George M. Gainsborough. London, United Kingdom: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889.
page number: p. 31
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Monkhouse, Cosmo. "Thomas Gainsborough." In Dictionary of National Biography. Leslie Stephen, ed., 361-367. New York: Macmillan, 1885.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. XX, P. 363
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Armstrong, Walter. Gainsborough and His Place in English Art. New York, NY: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898.
page number: Reproduced: p. 110-111, vol. I; Mentioned: p. 117, 201, vol. II
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Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord. Thomas Gainsborough. [with Illustrations.]. London: George Bell & Sons, 1903.
page number: Mentioned: P. 53
url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t2k651k8g
Armstrong, Walter. Gainsborough and His Place in English Art: With 48 Plates. London: Heinemann, 1904.
page number: Mentioned: P. 116, 147, 155, 277
url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t0xq0fr90
Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts; A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from Its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. London, United Kingdom: H. Graves and Co, 1905.
page number: Reproduced: p. 191, vol III
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Boulton, William Biggs. Thomas Gainsborough: His Life, Work, Friends, and Sitters ... With Forty Illustrations. Methuen & Co: London, 1905.
page number: Mentioned: P. 165
url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t98666g77
Menpes, Mortimer, and James Greig. Gainsborough. London, United Kingdom: A. and C. Black, 1909.
page number: Reproduced: p. 79-80
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Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London, United Kingdom: Graves, 1913.
page number: Reproduced: p. 384, vol. I
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Whitley, William T. Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700-1799. London, United Kingdom & Boston, MA: Medici Society, 1928.
page number: Reproduced: p. 378
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Waterhouse, Ellis K. "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough." The Walpole Society, XXXIII (1948-50).
page number: Reproduced: P. 91
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Waterhouse, E. K. "The Exhibition 'The First Hundred Years of The Royal Academy'." The Burlington Magazine 94, no. 587 (1952): 48-54.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 51, fig. 17
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/870794
Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. Gainsborough. London], United Kingdom: E. Hulton, 1958.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21, no. 577, pl. 110
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Talbot, William S. "Thomas Gainsborough, George Pitt, First Lord Rivers."
The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVIII no. 11 (November, 1971): 258-268.
page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 257, and details; fig. 1,7,8
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” May 12, 1971, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1895
Waterhouse, Ellis. “Bath and Gainsborough.” Apollo: The International Magazine of Art & Antiques 98 (November 1973): 360–65.
page number: Mentioned: P. 365; reproduced: P. 363, fig. II
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 193
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n213
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 189-191; Reproduced: p. 190
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Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 124
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Sloman, Susan. Gainsborough in Bath. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
page number: Reproduced: p. 49, fig. 58
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Maggio Serra, Rosanna. Vittorio Alfieri: aristocratico ribelle (1749-1803) : [Torino, Archivio di Stato, 5 ottobre 2003-11 gennaio 2004]. Milano, Italy: Electa, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 134
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Wiles, Stephanie, "British Invasion", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 04, April 2006
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-04/page/8
Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
page number: Reproduced: p. 142
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Hamilton, James. Gainsborough: A Portrait. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.
page number: Mentioned: p. 245
url:
Belsey, Hugh. Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters. New Haven : Published for the Paul mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2019.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 1, 4, 12, 278, 548, 712-714, cat. 770
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