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Richard Cosway
1740-1821
Portrait of Horace Beckford (1777-1831)
1790
Pencil and watercolor on paper.
9 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches (230 x 142 mm)
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1956.14
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Signed and dated in pencil within framing lines of mat, "Rdus Cosway. R. A. Primarius Pictor Serenissimi Walliae Principis Fecit 1790".
Provenance:
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 July 1956, lot 43; P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London.
Bibliography:
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 139.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Eighth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958, p. 81-82.
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