Portrait of Catherine Clemens and Her Son, John Marcus Clemens
Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Catherine Clemens and Her Son, John Marcus Clemens

Richard Cosway (British, 1742–1821) · c. 1800

watercolor on ivory in a gold and split pearl frame
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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