LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel on paper

Measurements:

23.90 in. (60.70 cm.) (height) by 17.91 in. (45.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'F Cotes Pixt 1755' (upper right)

Literature:

F. Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk houses, Norwich, 1927-28, vol.II, p.152, no. 29,E.F. Johnson, Francis Cotes. Complete Edition, Oxford, 1976, rejected cat. no. 28 ,S. Keppel, Three brothers at Havana, 1762, Salisbury, 1981, ill. (as of Albemarle, 1765) ,J. Barclay, Havana: Portrait of a City, London, 1995, p. 106, ill (as of Albemarle),N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2009, p. 131,N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online, J.243.109, ill

Provenance:

Commissioned by the sitter and thence by family descent until,Sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 November 2006, lot 183 (as General William Keppel)