Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Lot 14
Francis Cotes, R.A.(London 1726-1770)Portrait of Elizabeth Burdett, half-length,
9 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £25,000 inc. premium
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Francis Cotes, R.A. (London 1726-1770)
Portrait of Elizabeth Burdett, half-length, with pearl earrings and necklace, wearing a gold décolleté dress embroidered with flowers, her waist tied with a sash beneath a turquoise gown trimmed with ermine
oil on canvas
77.2 x 63.6cm (30 3/8 x 25 1/16in).
oil on canvas
77.2 x 63.6cm (30 3/8 x 25 1/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
By family descent from the sitter to Sir Francis Burdett, 7th Bt., Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire
His Sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1953, lot 52 (bt Sabin)
With Leggatt Brothers, London
With Gooden and Fox, London
Sale, Christie's, London, 19 July 1985, lot 97
Private Collection, UK
Literature
E. Mead Johnson, Francis Cotes, Oxford, 1976, p. 87, no. 226
Elizabeth Burdett (d. 1807) was the daughter of Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Bt. (1716-1797). In 1770, she married Francis Noel Clarke Mundy (1739-1815), with whom she had two sons, Francis and Charles.
Edward Mead Johnson compared the present work closely with the signed and dated three-quarter length portrait by Cotes of the same sitter (sold in these rooms, 6 December 2006, lot 38) and suggested the work was also painted in 1767. Cotes also painted other members of Elizabeth's family, including her father Sir Robert and her brother Francis, both of which portraits were also sold in the Burdett Sale in 1953. The portrait of Francis was also sold in these rooms on 6 December 2006, lot 39.
