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Lady Coats of Ballathie, née Miss Jane Greenlees 1920

Seated full-length to the right, her head turned and looking to the left, wearing a black lace stole over her green and yellow evening dress, a double string of pearls, holding an open fan in her lap with both hands, a curtain behind on the left

Oil on canvas, 177.8 x 119.4 cm (70 x 47 in.)

Inscribed lower right: de László / 1920 XII 

Laib no. L10030(140) / C6(3)  

NPG Album 1917-21 p.80

Sitters’ Book II, f. 19: Jane Muir Coats / Dec. 24th 1920

Perth and Kinross Council, Housed at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland

Note: An appointment should be made by anyone wishing to see these portraits.

It would seem from the provenance that the present portrait was commissioned by the sitter’s father-in-law.

The sitter was the daughter of Thomas Greenlees of Paisley, Renfrewshire. On 8 September 1891 she married Sir Stuart Auchincloss Coats, M.P. (1868-1959), son of Sir James Coats, Director of J. & P. Coats Ltd., Paisley, manufacturers of sewing cottons (whom he succeeded as 2nd Baronet in 1913) and his American-born wife, Sarah Ann Auchincloss.^[1] Together the sitter and her husband had two sons, James Stuart, born 1894, and Muir Dudley, born 1897,^[2] and a daughter, Margaret Mary Josephine, born 1901. The sitter died on 23 January 1958; her husband died the following summer.

PROVENANCE:

By descent in the sitter’s family to Sir James Stuart Coats of Ballathie, by whom it was gifted to the Perth Town Council in 1962 (having been on loan to the above between 1936-1962)