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Portrait Of The Farrier George Cooke

Stock No

4548

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2015
  • £4,600.00
  • €5,379 Euro
  • $5,749 US Dollar

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Item Description

Wonderful quality Georgian portrait, a typed label to the reverse identifying the sitter as 'George Cooke who was a farrier'. His clothes are clearly fine and his white stock has a fine stick pin decorated with a running white horse; a fob seal and watch key are suspended from a red ribbon at his waist. Within an excellent Carlo Maratta frame decorated with a gesso leaf and shield scotia and a pin-centred carved ribbon. English circa 1835.
o.s:32.75 in x 37.75 in
s.s:24.5 in x 29.5 in
The sitter is likely to be The George Cooke listed in 1817 as with the Worshipful Company of Farriers and as a 'Beadle'.
The son of our sitter married a Sophia Charlotte Whiteus, the granddaughter of Anne Stocks.

Item Info

Seller

WALPOLES

Seller Location

London, London

Period

19th Century

Item Location

United Kingdom

Seller Location

London, London

Item Location

United Kingdom

Seller Contact No

+44 (0)207 7275263

+44 (0)7831 561042

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