Richard Acland
Francis Cotes (London 1726 - London 1770)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1751 - 1770
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
572 x 470 mm (22 1/2 x 18 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730769
Summary
Pastel on paper (oval), Richard Acland by Francis Cotes, RA (London 1726 – London 1770). An oval half-length portrait of a gentleman turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, powdered hair, wearing a blue coat, gold buttons and white stock. He was the son of Richard Acland and Anne Burrell and brother of Frances Anne, second wife of Sir Richard Hoare (he must have been born in or before 1734, since his father died on 6 October 1735, and his only sister was born in 1735/36).
Provenance
Evidently Barn Elms, along with the oval pastels, by William Hoare of Sir Richard Hoare,1st Bt etc; thence - presumably via Wavendon - to Stourhead; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Makers and roles
Francis Cotes (London 1726 - London 1770), artist
References
Johnson 1976 Edward Mead Johnson, Francis Cotes: Complete Edition with a Critical Essay and a Catalogue, Oxford, 1976, p.55, no.32