![]() ![]() Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century. "Thomas Gainsborough: George Pitt, First Lord Rivers." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58 (November 1971), pp. Cousmaker of £100 on Februand of £105 plus "Frame 10 gs." in May 1782. "The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds." Walpole Society 42 (1970), pp. Standen in Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 36, ill., when installed in a frame from Croome Court. "Ninetieth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1959–1960." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 19 (October 1960), p. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 59, records Ernest Hemingway's comments on this painting during a visit to the Museum, noting that he called it "a damn good picture" and remarked on the arrogance of the sitter. "Profiles: How do you like it now, gentlemen?" New Yorker (May 13, 1950), p. "Kansas City: Exhibition of English Painting." Art News 35 (April 24, 1937), p. Vanderbilt Bequest." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15 (December 1920), p. A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy. 199, as Colonel George Coussmaker, Colonel Grenadier Guards record, in addition to sittings, payments in 17 provide biographical details. A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. A Catalogue of the Portraits Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., P.R.A. Cousmaker and, in March, an appointment for Mr. "Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney," February 3–May 5, 2002, no. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. "Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney," September 27–December 30, 2001, no. "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries," November 14, 1970–June 1, 1971, no. "Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 16–November 1, 1970, unnumbered cat. ![]() "Art Treasures of the Metropolitan," November 7, 1952–September 7, 1953, no. "English Painting," April 1–30, 1937, no catalogue. 65 (as "Colonel Coussmaker," lent by Lord De Clifford). "Pictures by the late Sir Joshua Reynolds," 1813, no. ![]() George Keppel's posthumous sale, Christie's, London, July 15, 1949, no. A small (24 x 18 in.) replica, not by Reynolds, was sold twice as a portrait by him of Viscount Ligonier: Lord Tweedmouth's sale, Christie's, London, June 3, 1905, no. ![]() An exceptionally fine work by the artist, the portrait is also remarkably well preserved. Payments were made on February 9, 1782, and possibly also in May, or within the year following, in the amounts of one hundred and one hundred and five pounds, plus ten guineas for the frame. Reynolds recorded an exceptionally large number of sittings for this portrait: twenty-one appointments with Coussmaker between February 9 and April 16, 1782, and perhaps as many as six or eight sessions with his horse. They had a son, George, who died unmarried in 1821, and a daughter, Sophia (1791–1874), who became the 22nd Baroness de Clifford in 1833. In 1790 Coussmaker married Catherine Southwell (1768–1802), eldest daughter of the late Edward Southwell, 20th Baron de Clifford. He saw no active service and retired from the military in 1795. In 1776, George joined the First Regiment of Foot Guards as ensign and lieutenant, the lowest commissioned rank he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and captain in 1778, and to that of captain and lieutenant colonel in 1788. His father, Evert Coussmaker, died in 1763, and his mother, Mary, was remarried, to Sir Thomas Hales, Baronet, of Howlett, Kent. George Kein Hayward Coussmaker was born in London in 1759. ![]()
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