id: 145999 accession number: 1971.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.2 updated: 2025-02-09 03:34:49.309000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - British before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- 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'} --- 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 footnotes: citations: William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Lord Rivers [1777-1831], Rushmore, Dorset, by descent to Horace, 6th Lord Rivers date: 1803-1831 footnotes: citations: Horace, 6th Lord Rivers [1814-1880], by descent to his cousin, Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt date: 1831-1880 footnotes: citations: Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt [1827-1900], by descent to his grandson George Henry Lane-Fox-Pitt-Rivers date: 1880-1900 footnotes: *
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt was the second son of Marcia Lucy [died 1822], the youngest sister of George, 2nd Lord Rivers.
citations: George Henry Lane-Fox-Pitt-Rivers [1890-1966], Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, passed to his common-law wife Stella date: 1900-1966 footnotes: citations: Stella Pitt-Rivers, sold to E.V. Thaw date: 1966-1970 footnotes: *
Stella was the common-law wife of George Henry Lane-Fox-Pitt-Rivers, and later married M. Robert Maumen
citations: (E. V. Thaw, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1970-1971 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1971- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Belsey, Hugh. Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 2019. p. 712-714. page number: url: Brock-Arnold, George M. Gainsborough. London, United Kingdom: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. page number: p. 31 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London, United Kingdom: Graves, 1913. page number: Reproduced: p. 384, vol. I url: Whitley, William T. Artists and Their Friends in England, 1700-1799. London, United Kingdom & Boston, MA: Medici Society, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 378 url: Waterhouse, Ellis K. "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough." The Walpole Society, XXXIII (1948-50). page number: Reproduced: P. 91 url: 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 url: 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 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” May 12, 1971, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: 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 url: 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 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 124 url: Sloman, Susan. Gainsborough in Bath. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. page number: Reproduced: p. 49, fig. 58 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.2/1971.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.2/1971.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.2/1971.2_full.tif