Francis Cotes* (1725-1770)

Portrait of the Hon. Elizabeth Booth (1743-1765), half length, in a white dress decorated with bows and pearls, within a feigned stone oval

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Francis Cotes* (1725-1770)
Portrait of the Hon. Elizabeth Booth (1743-1765), half length, in a white dress decorated with bows and pearls, within a feigned stone oval
oil on canvas
30 x 25in. (76.3 x 64.2cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 19, 1913, lot 110 (to Agnews).
W. Lockett Agnew; Christie's, London, Jan. 15, 1923, lot 6.
with Leggatt Bros., London.
with Arthur Ackermann, London.
with Leger Gallery, London, 1932.

Literature

E.M. Johnson, Francis Cotes, 1976, p. 70, no. 132.

Lot Essay

Elizabeth Booth was the only daughter of Nathaniel Booth, 4th Baron Delamere, and his wife, Margaret, youngest daughter of Richard Jones of Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire. She died on January 9, 1765, aged twenty-one.

Johnson dates the present work and another portrait of Elizabeth Booth (private collection, England) to 1763-5 (op. cit., pp. 70-1).

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