Francis Cotes RA (1726-1770) Portrait of Mary Parker (née Watson), half-length, wearing a white dress, blue shawl and pearl necklace, leaning on a balustrade Oil on canvas 90.5 x 71.3cm; 35½ x 28in Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter`s husband, John Parker, 1766; And by family descent Literature: Edward Meade Johnson, Francis Cotes (Phaidon Press, 1976), p.80, no.187 (whereabouts unknown); Elaine Barr, `John Parker, Goldsmith - a Portrait by Francis Cotes`, in The Burlington Magazine (June 1979), pp.375-376 & 378, fig.61 Exhibited: Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury Art Gallery, Pictures from Shropshire Houses, July-September 1951, no.1