Francis Cotes (London 1726-1770)


Portrait of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle signed and dated 'F Cotes Pixt 1755' (upper right)pastel on paper60.7 x 45.5cm (23 7/8 x 17 15/16in).
|ProvenanceCommissioned by the sitter and thence by family descent untilSale, Sotheby's, London, 23 November 2006, lot 183 (as General William Keppel)LiteratureF. Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk houses, Norwich, 1927-28, vol.II, p.152, no. 29E.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. 131N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online, J.243.109, ill.The present work is after a lost original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, known through an engraving by Edward Fisher (see: NPG D7197).