The Family of the Earl Gower is a 1772 painting by Swiss painter Angelica Kauffman. It is held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., United States.
It portrays Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (1721-1803), also known as The Earl Gower, an English Whig politician and cabinet minister, and his family. His third wife, Lady Susanna (1742-1805) holds a lyre, and his heir, George Leveson-Gower (1758-1833, later the Duke of Sutherland) holds a book, while the three youngest daughters play with a lamb.
The painting is in oil on canvas and measures .
Another famous painting of the family by George Romney is titled The Gower Family: The Children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower.
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