# Francis Cotes - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T07:05:18.267Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 40
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2002-10-17
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-10
- Median realised price: $3,000
- Price range: $100 to $56,250

## Market Takeaway
Francis Cotes shows developing auction liquidity with 37 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,868. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-28.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,868\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,300 and $4,320.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 9.1% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 77.3% (17 sales)
- $10,000\+: 13.6% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $19,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-28
- Days since latest sale: 113
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Skinner: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 2 lots
- Duran Arte y Subastas: 2 lots
- Everard Auctions and Appraisals: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 1 lots
- Brussels Art Auctions: 1 lots
- Cambi Casa d'Aste: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-02-25 | Francis Cotes \(1726\-1770\) Portrait of Jane Knight | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $3,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-francis-cotes-1726-1770-portrait-of-jane-knight-567-c-a0920e4efe
2. 2024-01-31 | FRANCIS COTES \(BRITISH 1726\-1770\), PORTRAIT OF MRS. WILLIAM COLHOUN \(\`COLQUHOUN'\) OF WRETHAM | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-francis-cotes-british-1726-1770-portrait-of-mrs-william-colhoun-colquhoun-of-wretham-197-c-c9e43408a0
3. 2026-03-10 | Francis Cotes, RA,  British 1726\-1770\-  Portrait of Charlot | Roseberys | £17,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-francis-cotes-ra-british-1726-1770-portrait-of-charlot-102-c-d0410a9b62
4. 2025-10-28 | Francis Cotes \(1726\-1770\) Portrait of Jane Knight | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | N/A
5. 2025-02-26 | Francis Cotes \(18th C\). Portrait of a Lady | Duran Arte y Subastas | N/A
6. 2025-02-26 | Francis Cotes \(18th C\) Portrait of a Lady | Duran Arte y Subastas | N/A
7. 2025-02-06 | Francis Cotes \(British, 1726 \- 1770\), Portrait of an elegant lady in a blue dress | Sloane Street Auctions | N/A
8. 2024-12-04 | Francis Cotes \(London 1726\-1770\) Portrait of Mrs William Colhoun of Wretham, Norfolk, full\-length, standing beside an urn before a landscape | Bonhams | £19,000
9. 2023-11-14 | FRANCIS COTES \(BRITISH 1726 \- 1770\), PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, IDENTIFIED AS MR GOUCH | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
10. 2023-07-22 | PORTRAIT OIL PAINTING AFTER FRANCIS COTES SIGNED | Antique Arena Inc | $375
11. 2021-07-28 | Francis Cotes 1726\-1770 Georgian Portrait Painting | Hill Auction Gallery | $550
12. 2021-06-29 | Francis Cotes \(1726\-1770\) \(attribué à / toegeschreven aan\) Portrait of a Lady \- Portrait of a nobleman | Brussels Art Auctions | €3,000
13. 2021-06-20 | FRANCIS COTES \(BRITISH, 1726\-1770\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $40,000
14. 2020-10-14 | FRANCIS COTES \(BRITISH 1726\-1770\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £4,400
15. 2020-09-30 | Francis Cotes \(1726\-1770\) | Sworders | £100
16. 2020-09-24 | FRANCIS COTES | Wannenes Art Auctions | €2,000
17. 2018-10-24 | FRANCIS COTES \(LONDON 1726\-1770\) \- Portrait of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle | Bonhams | £3,500
18. 2018-07-04 | FRANCIS COTES \(LONDON 1726\-1770\) \- Portrait of Robert Francis Burdett, 4th bt., three\-quarter length in a red | Bonhams | £56,250
19. 2018-04-25 | FRANCIS COTES \(LONDON 1726\-1770\) Portrait of George Keppel, 3rd Earl o | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2017-11-08 | Francis Cotes \(British 1726 \- 1770\) \- Portrait of a Gentleman in a red coat | Dreweatts 1759 | £7,000
21. 2016-11-15 | Francis Cotes \(1726\-1770\) attribuito a, Ritratto di Signora | Cambi Casa d'Aste | €4,125
22. 2016-04-30 | FRANCIS COTES \(1726\-1770\): PORTRAIT OF THE HONORABLE MRS. GEORGE BURGES, NÉE ANNE WICHNOUR SOMERVILLE | STAIR | $2,300
23. 2016-04-08 | Francis Cotes \(British, 1726\-1770\), Emma Vernon, 1st Marchioness of Exeter, Unsigned, identified on a presentation plaque., Condition: | Skinner | $2,500
24. 2015-11-14 | FRANCIS COTES \(UK, 1726\-1770\) \- "Lady Rodney", oil on canvas, oval format, unsigned, identified verso, in the original carved gold frame, OS: 15 1/2" x 13 3/4", SS: 13" x 11 1/4" | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $1,000

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