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Fig 2. FRANCIS COTES, Lord Hoare, National Trust Fig 3. FRANCIS COTES, Frances Anne Acland, Lady Hoare,
Stourhead. National Trust, Stourhead.

sisters, which were engraved and widely wife (Fig. 3), also called Anne, 1767. (All
circulated as prints in 1752 (Fig. 1. Maria three paintings are now with the National
Gunning, Inverary Castle). Trust, at Stourhead). This genre of pendant
portraits, hung side by side, was a common way
Admired for his skill in catching a likeness, of celebrating a marriage – where a new wife
C otes developed a natural, distinctive style, could literally replace another in the frame.
seen for example in the fine portrait of Richard And despite the decade between the portraits
Hoare, holding his plans, drawn in 1757 ( Fig. of Richard Hoare and Anne, the contrast
2), and the companion portrait of his cousin and between his, upright, preoccupied ‘masculine’
first wife, Anne. Ten years later, Cotes drew an stance, and the gentle, direct gaze of Anne, as
even more evocative portrait of Hoare’s second

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