George Gower (–1596)

Autore di Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

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Data di nascita: 1540 (approximately)
Data di morte: 1596
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: English
Luogo di morte: London, England, UK
Relazioni: Gower, Sir John (grandfather)
Premi e riconoscimenti: Serjeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth I
Breve biografia: Very little is known about his early life except that he was a grandson of Sir John Gower of Stittenham, Yorkshire.

His earliest documented works are the two 1573 companion portraits of Sir Thomas Kytson and his wife Lady Kytson, now in the Tate Gallery in London.

Gower painted a self-portrait in 1579 that shows his coat of arms and his artist's tools of his trade. An allegorical device shows a balance with an artist's dividers outweighing the family coat of arms, "a startling claim in England where a painter was still viewed as little more than an artisan." Gower was appointed to the position of Serjeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth in 1581.[1] This allowed him to paint most of England’s aristocracy. The post also made him responsible for painted decoration at the royal residences, and on coaches and furniture. Among his works were a fountain (now destroyed) and the astronomical clock, both at Hampton Court Palace. He also inspected portraits of the Queen by other artists prior to their official release. [from Wikipedia]