Francis Cotes (1726-1770), a bust-length portrait of Alice Blair Galt Johnston, pastel on paper, laid down to canvas, signed and dated centre left: FC (entwined) / 1751, 79 cm x 67 cm. Provenance: Foy Clifton Casper (1940-2002), chief Conservator of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia, sold from his estate, Moorabool Antiques Galleries, Geelong, where acquired by the present vendor in 2008. Literature: Neil Jeffares, 'Francis Cotes', dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (London, 2006), online edition (http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Cotes1.pdf), updated 16 June, 2023