Lot 272: FRANCIS COTES (LONDON 1726-1770) Portrait of George Keppel, 3rd Earl o

FRANCIS COTES (LONDON 1726-1770) Portrait of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle signed and dated ‘F Cotes Pixt 1755’ (upper right) pastel on paper 60.7 x 45.5cm (23 7/8 x 17 15/16in).

Provenance Commissioned by the sitter and thence by family descent until Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 23 November 2006, lot 183 (as General William Keppel) Literature F. Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk houses, Norwich, 1927-28, vol.II, p.152, no. 29 E.F. Johnson, Francis Cotes. Complete Edition, Oxford, 1976, rejected cat. no. 28 S. Keppel, Three brothers at Havana, 1762, Salisbury, 1981, ill. (as of Albemarle, 1765) J. Barclay, Havana: Portrait of a City, London, 1995, p. 106, ill (as of Albemarle) N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, London, 2009, p. 131 N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online, J.243.109, ill. The present work is after a lost original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, known through an engraving by Edward Fisher (see: NPG D7197).