Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)
Lot 6

RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 41,250

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RICHARD COSWAY, R.A. (BRITISH, 1742-1821)
Charles Francis Plowden (1781-1800), in the uniform of the 5th Regiment of Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers), blue coat with red collar, silver braids, tassels and epaulettes, powdered hair; sky background
on ivory
oval, 2.7/8 in. (73 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with plaited hair surround, the reverse with opalescent glass aperture and plaited hair surround, the sides engraved 'Charles Francis Plowden Born 1 February 1781 - Painted by Rich.d Cosway July 1795'

Christie's, London, 14 October 1992, lot 73.

Specialist note

Charles Francis Plowden was gazetted Cornet in the 15th Light Dragoons without purchase from 27 May 1795. He was transferred to the 5th Regiment of Foot on promotion to Lieutenant by purchase, from 11 October 1798. His battalion fought under the Duke of York in Holland in 1799. He died in October 1800. The present miniature may be a memento of his first commission.