Francis Cotes

Portrait of Elizabeth Burdett, half-length, with pearl earrings and necklace, wearing a gold décolleté dress embroidered with flowers, her waist tied with a sash beneath a turquoise gown trimmed with ermine



Francis Cotes - Portrait of Elizabeth Burdett, half-length, with pearl earrings and necklace, wearing a gold décolleté dress embroidered with flowers, her waist tied with a sash beneath a turquoise gown trimmed with ermine



Francis Cotes
Portrait of Elizabeth Burdett, half-length, with pearl earrings and necklace, wearing a gold décolleté dress embroidered with flowers, her waist tied with a sash beneath a turquoise gown trimmed with ermine
77.2 x 63.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Sale Bonhams, London, 9 December 2015


Provenance

By family descent from the sitter to Sir Francis Burdett, 7th Bt., Ramsbury Manor, Wiltshire
His Sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1953, lot 52 (bt Sabin)
With Leggatt Brothers, London
With Gooden and Fox, London
Sale, Christie's, London, 19 July 1985, lot 97
Private Collection, UK
Sale Bonhams, London, 9 December 2015, nr. 14

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