Lot Essay
This pastel's traditional companion piece by Francis Cotes will be offered as lot 125 in the present auction.
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The Property of a Nobleman
ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENICE 1673-1757)
Presumed portrait of Robert, Lord Fairfax
Details
ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENICE 1673-1757)
Presumed portrait of Robert, Lord Fairfax
pastel, heightened with bodycolour, on paper laid down on canvas
59.5 x 47.4 cm (23 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.)
Presumed portrait of Robert, Lord Fairfax
pastel, heightened with bodycolour, on paper laid down on canvas
59.5 x 47.4 cm (23 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.)
Provenance
By inheritance through the presumed sitter’s second wife, Dorothy (died 1750), daughter of the brewer Mawdesley Best of Chilston, Kent, and sister of James Best, father of George Best of Chilston, father of Dorothy Best, wife of the Rev. Joseph George Brett (1790-1852) and mother of William Balliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher (1815-1899); by descent to the present owner.
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