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 Code: 4548
£ 4600
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