Cotton, Sir Robert Salusbury, 5th Bt

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Cotton, Sir Robert Salusbury, 5th Bt
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(c.1739 - 1809) of Combermere Abbey, Ches., e. s. of Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton; educ. Shrewsbury, Westminster and Trin. Hall Camb. 1756; m. 1767 Frances Stapleton; MP 1780 - 96; suc. fa. 1775 as 5th Bt.


1791 - 2 Padua, Venice (22 Sep. - 16 Oct. 1791), Rome (by Easter 1792), Venice (2 Jun. 1792)


Sir Robert Cotton arrived in Venice with a Mr Horton and a 'Mr Gouch'[?] on 22 September 1791 and left before them on 16 October.1 The following year he was in Rome for Easter;2 he returned to Venice in June, 'con Famiglia'.3


In 1792 Cotton's youngest daughter Sophia (d. 1838, later Lady Mainwaring) was painted in Rome by Robert Fagan (priv. coll.), the same year as her relations the Corbets. An unattributed portrait of Sir Robert painted in Rome was sold by Robinson and Fisher, 5 May 1932.


1. ASV IS 763. 2. AVR SA, S.Andrea delle Fratte. 3. ASV IS 764.