Francis Cotes, 1726 - 1770 Portrait of Anne Lady Buchanan Nee Farquar, Circa 1709 - 1769

Francis Cotes, 1726 - 1770

Portrait of Anne Lady Buchanan nee Farquar, circa 1709 - 1769

3rd October 1754

pastel on paper laid down on canvas

24 x 18 in. (61 x 46 cm.)

drawn in 1754 and ws pendant portrait of her husband Sir Francis James Buchanan also by Francis Cotes and drawn at the same time( signed and dated 1754) Sold at Sothebys New York Oct 11 1990, lot 156.

Literature

Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, illustrated under the Francis Cotes section, online version and print edition Published 30 April 2006

Notes

Anne was born around 1709 she was daughter of William Farquhar, MD and Elizabeth Farquhar of New York, USA , she married in 1756 Col Sir Francis James Buchanan , she was mother of three children of whom only one suvived Namely Elizabeth Buchanan who married Sir Thomas Reed. She was sister of Capt William Farquhar and James Farquhar .

Sir Francis was descended from the Rev. Charles Buchanan, a Scottish clergyman who settled in England. The Rev. Charles had a son Charles who lived in London, and died at Camberwell. This Charles was twice married and had by his first wife, a native of Scotland, two sons, Francis James, (the husband of Anne Buchanan nee Farquar), and Thomas who settled in Maryland about 1760. Sir Francis entered the army and as a Lieutenant accompanied Braddock in his expedition and was wounded in the campaign. In 1756 he became Captain- Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. In 1757, according to the Post Boy. he was in command at Sandy Hook. On January, 1759, he was gazetted Captain and in 1762 took part in the expedition against Havana. In 1772 he was appointed Major in the Army. In 1776 he received the appointment of Lieutenant Governor of Kinsale and Charles Fort in Ireland, and for his services received the honour of knighthood. In 1777 he became Lieutenant-Colonel in the army. Shortly after he again came out to America and took part in the Revolution. While here, probably during the earlier period, he married a Miss Farquhar who, in all likelihood, was a daughter of our member, Dr. William Farquhar. By her he had a son who died in his father's lifetime, and a daughter Eliza who married Major Thomas Reed of Dublin, father of General Sir Thomas Reed, K. C. B., of Ampfield House, Hants. In 1779 Sir Francis was invalided home and placed in command, as Major, of a battalion of invalids returning to England. He became Colonel in the army in 1782, and died at Bath February 15, 1787. — Ford; Kcmhle Papers; The Buchanan Book; British Army List.

Anne and Colonel Francis Buchanan's surviving child and daughter, Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Reed, (1796–1883), army officer, who was born on 11 September 1796 in Dublin, son of Thomas Reed of Dublin, and Eliza, daughter of Colonel Sir Francis James Buchanan. Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he entered the army as cornet in the 12th light dragoons on 26 August 1813, and became lieutenant on 2 May 1815. He was present with his regiment at Waterloo, when it was commanded by Colonel Frederic Cavendish Ponsonby. On 19 February 1824 he was promoted captain, and on 7 October 1824 obtained a company in the 53rd foot, in which he became major on 15 June 1826. On 11 August 1829 he was promoted to a half pay lieutenant-colonelcy, and on 30 May 1834 he became lieutenant-colonel of the 62nd foot, a position he held for eighteen years. On 8 January 1835 he married Elizabeth Jane, daughter of John Clayton of Enfield Old Park, Middlesex. Reed was made brevet colonel on 23 November 1841, and in 1842 aide-de-camp to the queen. In 1844 he was made a CB.

The BUCHANANS of Buchanan, and of that ilk, are descended from Gilbert, Seneschal to the Earl of Lennox, who obtained from him, in the middle of the thirteenth century, a part of the lands of Buchanan, in Stirlingshire, Scotland, and took his name from them. The King