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SAMUEL COTES (BRITISH, 1734-1818)
A lady, in black dress with lace fichu, a black lace cap over her high-piled powdered hair
Signed with initials and dated ‘SC / 1777.’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 56 mm. high, gilt-metal frame with diamond surround
A lady, in black dress with lace fichu, a black lace cap over her high-piled powdered hair
Signed with initials and dated ‘SC / 1777.’ (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 56 mm. high, gilt-metal frame with diamond surround
Provenance
Ernest George Raphael (1869-1945), Catteshall Manor, Godalming, Surrey; (\+) Sotheby’s, London, 9 November 1945, lot 50.
Mikel Papier (1889-1948) Collection, no. 154, and by descent.
Mikel Papier (1889-1948) Collection, no. 154, and by descent.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais du Louvre, La Peinture anglaise, XVIIIe. & XIXe. siècles, 1938, no. 274 (lent by Ernest G. Raphael, London).
Special notice
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