Lot 17
Lot 17
PROPERTY OF THE EARL OF HAREWOOD
FRANCIS COTES, R.A. (BRITISH, 1726-1770)

Portrait of Lady Frances Lascelles (1750-1817), as a child, three-quarter-length, turned to the right, wearing a white dress with a blue sash, playing with a whippet

Price Realised GBP 4,410
Estimate
GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000
Closed: 23 Oct 2024
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FRANCIS COTES, R.A. (BRITISH, 1726-1770)

Portrait of Lady Frances Lascelles (1750-1817), as a child, three-quarter-length, turned to the right, wearing a white dress with a blue sash, playing with a whippet

Price Realised GBP 4,410
Closed: 23 Oct 2024
Price Realised GBP 4,410
Closed: 23 Oct 2024
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FRANCIS COTES, R.A. (BRITISH, 1726-1770)
Portrait of Lady Frances Lascelles (1750-1817), as a child, three-quarter-length, turned to the right, wearing a white dress with a blue sash, playing with a whippet
signed and dated 'FCotes pxt / 1764.' (lower left)
pastel on paper
2312 x 1714 in. (59.8 x 44 cm.)
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Anne, Lady Harewood, 6 December 1763, and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
Literature
F. O'Donoghue and Sir Henry Hake, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits in the British Museum, London, vol. II, p. 78, no. 1.
T. Borenius, Catalogue of the Pictures at Harewood House, Oxford, 1936, no. 238, pl. XXXVIII.
E. Mead Johnson, Francis Cotes, Oxford, 1976, p. 72, no. 141 and appendix III, p.160.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.243.301.
Exhibited
London, Society of Artists, 1765, no. 20 as 'A child playing with a greyhound'.
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