JULIA MARGARET CAMERON | BROWNING'S SORDELLO (HENRY JOHN STEDMAN COTTON AND MARY RYAN)

Collection of Sir Henry John Stedman and Mary (Ryan) Cotton

By descent to the present owner

Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton was the Chief Commissioner of Assam (1896-1902). He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in the 1902 Coronation Honors and invested as such by King Edward VI on October 1902. He and Mary Ryan, the sitters pictured here, had four children. This photograph, as well as Lot 178, has passed by descent from Cotton to the present owner.