Sarah Jodrell, Mrs Robert Child (c.1740-1793)
Francis Cotes (London 1726 - London 1770)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1766 (signed and dated) - 1766 (exh at Society of Arts)
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
965 x 711 mm (38 x 28 in)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773369
Summary
Pastel on four pieces of joined paper (oval), Sarah Jodrell, Mrs Robert Child (c.1740-1793) by Francis Cotes (1726-70), signed and dated lower right 'F. Cotes pxt 1766'. A half-length portrait, wearing a grey dress with a blue sash, in profile.
Provenance
Recorded at Osterley Park in 1915; on loan from the Earldom of Jersey Trust.
Credit line
Osterley Park, The Jersey Collection
Makers and roles
Francis Cotes (London 1726 - London 1770), artist Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), artist
References
Pilkington, Matthew, A general dictionary of painters;, 1840, Described by Matthew Pilkington in A General Dictionary of Painters, with other pictures, as ‘portraits which if they yield to Rosalba in softness excel hers in vivacity and invention.’ Tipping 1926 H. Avray Tipping, Pictures at Osterely Park, Country Life, 4th December 1926, p. 909 Johnson 1976 Edward Mead Johnson, Francis Cotes, Oxford, 1976, p. 80, no. 190, illus. fig. 27