Name: FRANCIS COTES, R.A. (BRITISH, 1726-1770)
Brand: 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: 3500.00 GBP
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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 px^t/ 1764.' (lower left)
pastel on paper
23¹⁄₂ x 17¹⁄₄ in. (59.8 x 44 cm.)

Commissioned from the artist by Anne, Lady Harewood, 6 December 1763, and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.

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.

London, Society of Artists, 1765, no. 20 as 'A child playing with a greyhound'.

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Francis Lascelles was the daughter of Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood, she married John Douglas, son of James Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton. Cotes executed another portrait of the sitter which was included in the sale of his personal effects after his death conducted by Langford and Son, London 23 February 1771, lot 23, see Mead Johnson, op.cit., p. 158.