Lot 48: FRANCIS COTES (LONDON 1726-1770) - Portrait of Robert Francis Burdett, 4th bt., three-quarter length in a red

FRANCIS COTES (LONDON 1726-1770)
Portrait of Robert Francis Burdett, 4th bt., three-quarter length in a red
coat and standing before a green brocade curtain
signed and dated ‘FCotes px.t/ 1767’ (lower right) and bears
inscription ‘Sir Robert Burdett IV. Bt/ B. 1716- D. 1797/ F. COTES,
R.A.’ (on reverse)
oil on canvas 126.3 x 100.2cm (49 3/4 x 39 7/16in).

Provenance:
The sitter and thence by descent to Sir Francis Burdett, 7th Bt.,
Ramsbury Manor, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, by whom offered
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1953, lot 41 (bt. Leggatt)
With Leggatt Brothers, London
With Gooden and Fox, London