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FRANCIS COTES, R.A. (LONDON 1726-1770)

Lot 63
11.02.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1536762
Lot 63 | FRANCIS COTES, R.A. (LONDON 1726-1770)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
FRANCIS COTES, R.A. (LONDON 1726-1770)
Portrait of William Jones of Ramsbury (d. 1766), three-quarter-length, wearing a red dress coat and white gold-embroidered waistcoat, in a landscape
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.5 cm.)
in a Duveen 'Pinkie' style frame




Provenance

The sitter, and by descent in his family to,
Sir Francis Burdett, 7th Bt., Ramsbury Manor, Ramsbury, Wiltshire; his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1953, lot 45, the sitter incorrectly identified as ‘Francis Burdett’, where acquired for £480 by the following,
with Frank Partridge & Sons, London.
with Duveen Brothers, London and New York.
Margaret 'Daisy' Post van Alen Bruguiére (1876-1969), Wakehurst, Newport, RI, her sale, [The Property of Margaret Louise van Alen Bruguiere removed from Wakehurst, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.]; Christie’s, London, 28 November 1969, lot 188, incorrectly identified as ‘Francis Burdett’, (for 7,500 gns).
with Leger Galleries, London,
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) and Annie-Laurie Aiken, née Warmack (1900-1984) from the above in December 1970.



Literature

Advertisement, Apollo, October 1970, p. 37, illustrated.
E.M. Johnson, Francis Cotes: Complete Edition with a Critical Essay and a Catalogue, Oxford, 1976, p. 75, no. 159, fig. 55.



Exhibited

London, Leger Galleries, Exhibition of English Paintings 1750-1900, 7 October-31 October 1970, no. 4.
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