Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Richard Cosway, R.A. (Oakford, Devon 1742-1821 London)
Lot 116

Richard Cosway, R.A. (Oakford, Devon 1742-1821 London)

Portrait of Mrs John Drummond, née Hester Cholmondeley, small full-length, in a white dress with frilled trim and sash, a book in her left hand

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 3,250

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Richard Cosway, R.A. (Oakford, Devon 1742-1821 London)
Portrait of Mrs John Drummond, née Hester Cholmondeley, small full-length, in a white dress with frilled trim and sash, a book in her left hand
with inscription 'Mrs John Drummond/Sister of Charles 1st Lord Delamere née Cholmondeley/by Cosway' (verso)
pencil and watercolour
9 x 5½ in. (22.9 x 14 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 April 1917, lot 70 (50 gns to Huggins).
Anonymous sale; Bonham's, London, 21 May 2008, lot 31, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Hester Cholmondeley was born before 1774, the daughter of Thomas Cholmondeley, M.P. for Cheshire, and Dorothy Cowper. She married John Drummond on 11 June 1789 and they had one son and two daughters. She died on 24 September 1802. Despite the inscription on the reverse, her brother, the 1st Lord Delamere was in fact named Thomas, not Charles.