Portrait of Catherine Clemens and Her Son, John Marcus Clemens
c. 1800
Richard Cosway
Richard Cosway (British, 1742–1821)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of Catherine Clemens and Her Son, John Marcus Clemens, c. 1800. Richard Cosway (British, 1742–1821). Watercolor on ivory in a gold and split pearl frame; framed: 9 x 7.3 cm (3 9/16 x 2 7/8 in.); sight: 8 x 6.1 cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1941.552 Portraits of mothers with their children were much more common in the 1700s and 1800s in Britain than were portraits of fathers with their children.
- Maker/Artist
- Cosway, Richard
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor on ivory in a gold and split pearl frame
- Dimensions
- Framed: 9 x 7.3 cm (3 9/16 x 2 7/8 in.); Sight: 8 x 6.1 cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1941.552
- Credit Line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Exhibitions
- Four Centuries of Miniature Painting, Chefs d’Oeuvre de la Miniature et de la Gouache, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives, <em>Main Gallery Rotation,</em> Gallery 202, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 5, 2009 - April 6, 2009)., <em>Main European Rotation,</em> Gallery 202, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 30, 2012 - July 23, 2012).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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