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German School, 18th Century Portrait of Edmond Michael Colnette image 1
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Lot 180

German School, 18th Century
Portrait of Edmond Michael Colnette

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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German School, 18th Century

Portrait of Edmond Michael Colnette three-quarter-length, in a brown coat, holding a recorder with a music score
charged with sitter's coat-of-arms and bears inscription 'EDMOND MICHAEL COLNETTE/OBIT 1724 AT 44' (upper right)
oil on canvas
92 x 70.5cm (36 1/4 x 27 3/4in).

Footnotes

The arms in the upper right corner of the picture are the arms of Edmond Michael COLNETTE (1680-1724) a glazier of Wapping Middlesex and his wife Mary DOWDESWELL (1687-1724) formerly of St Dunstan's Stepney. They were married in 1707 at the church of St John Wapping, Middlesex.

Edmond Michael COLNETTE was the son of Edmund COLNETTE (born 1660) also of Wapping and a glassmaker.

Mary DOWDESWELL was the daughter of Henry DOWDESWELL and his wife Mary WILSON.

Despite Edmond Michael's death at a young age they had issue of several children, amongst whom is an Edmund Michael COLNETTE jnr. (born 1711) who was apprenticed in 1725 as a baker and later was a Freeman (Citizen) of the City of London. His son's genealogy is often confused with his own.

The somewhat unusual blazon:

or, on a chevron gules between three columbines argent, as many flowerpots of the field (Colnett). – impaling – argent, a fess wavy between six billets sable (Dowdeswell)


With thanks to Roger Whitworth in the preparation of this footnote.

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