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[Sir John Cotton, third baronet]
[George Perfect Harding after Godfrey Kneller, c.1802]
Watercolour and wash, border 135 x 115 (5¼ x 4½"). Tipped into album sheet with hand-drawn border added.
Sir John Cotton, third baronet (1621-1702), MP for Huntingdon and later Huntingdonshire. He saw that the Cotton library was bought for the nation by act of parliament, possibly avoiding the possibility of it falling into the hands of his 'two illiterate grandsons' and being broken up. Watercolour after a portrait by Kneller, by George Perfect Harding (1779/80-1853), miniature painter. Harding devoted himself to producing minute copies in watercolour of works of historical and antiquarian interest. Examples of his work are in several major British institutions.
[Ref: 42312] £290.00
Watercolour and wash, border 135 x 115 (5¼ x 4½"). Tipped into album sheet with hand-drawn border added.
Sir John Cotton, third baronet (1621-1702), MP for Huntingdon and later Huntingdonshire. He saw that the Cotton library was bought for the nation by act of parliament, possibly avoiding the possibility of it falling into the hands of his 'two illiterate grandsons' and being broken up. Watercolour after a portrait by Kneller, by George Perfect Harding (1779/80-1853), miniature painter. Harding devoted himself to producing minute copies in watercolour of works of historical and antiquarian interest. Examples of his work are in several major British institutions.
[Ref: 42312] £290.00