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Portrait of Hugh Percy, Second Duke
of Northumberland, ca. 1788
Oil on canvas

Purchase with funds from Alfred Austell
Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton
and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller
Venable and William Hoyt Venable, 1993.14

Costume is an obvious way to communicate one's
status or position in society. In this portrait, Lord
Percy proudly displays the coveted Order of the
Garter, the highest English Order of Chivalry.