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UNTRACED

Sir John Richard Geers Cotterell, 4th Bt 1934

Pencil on paper, 21.6 x 34.3 cm (13 ½ x 8 ½ in.)

Sitters’ Book II, f. 77: J.R.G. Cotterell May 3. 1934

Studio Inventory, p. 163 (335): Study of Sir John Cotterill.

This is a preparatory study for the half-length portrait of Sir John Cotterell, commissioned by Hereford County Council in 1934 [4187]. It remained in the artist’s studio until his death, when it was recorded in the Studio Inventory, but is now untraced. It is described as being inscribed but there is no visual record.

PROVENANCE:

In the artist’s studio until his death

KF 2020