ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1625

Lot 127
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
£ 8 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1443165
Lot 127 | ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1625
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1625
Portrait of John Cotton (1547-1635), of Steeple Gidding, near Huntingdon, aged 78, bust-length in a black coat and white ruff
oil on panel
21 7/8 x 16 ¾ in. (55.5 x 42.5 cm.)
inscribed 'Ætatis sua / 78 anno 1625.' (upper right) and with identifying inscription 'John Cotton of Steepll / Gedding in com. hunt Esq / Uncle to Sr Robt Cotton knt & Bar.t Surnamed / the antiquary' (upper left)




Provenance

Mary Feilding, née Cotton (d. 1782), Countess of Denbigh and Desmond, and by descent in the family of the Earls of Denbigh at Newnham Paddox, Rugby, to,
Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1885-1937); his sale (†), Christie's, London, 1 July 1938, lot 20, where acquired by the father-in-law of the present owner.



Literature

P. Toynbee (ed.), ‘Horace Walpole's Journals of Visits to Country Seats etc.', The Volume of the Walpole Society, XVI, 1927-1928, p. 63.
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