File:Portrait of Major-General Spencer Cowper (1726-1797) (by John Downman).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionPortrait of Major-General Spencer Cowper (1726-1797) (by John Downman).jpg |
English: John Downman, A.R.A. (Ruabon, N. Wales 1750 - 1824 Wrexham)
Portrait of Major-General Spencer Cowper (1726-1797) Watercolour and black chalk on laid paper; signed and dated lower left: J Downman / P: t 1784; inscribed on two fragments preserved on the backboard: The portrait of / ? ? Cowper, and: Left to Hubert / (GERS) 186 by 150 mm After attending Westminster School and Worcester College, Oxford, the sitter entered the army. He rose through the ranks and, fighting in the American War of Independence, he was eventually made a Lieutenant-General (1787). |
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