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Among meritorious performances coming under this heading, to which we are unable to refer in detail, are Mrs. Mariette Cotton's "Mrs. Mahlon Sands" and "Frederick Martin, Esq." (both at the Royal Academy)..
[The exhibition includes] six paintings by Mrs. Leslie Cotton, including one of the artist herself. The character of the pictures was such that the catalogue holder was pretty sure to turn to this last portrait with a good deal of interest. When he found it, he was quite sure to be astonished. This smiling, young, modish society woman, seemingly coming out of the frame with outstretched hand to greet you, looked too much the woman of fashion to be the hard working artist.
Colonel William Cotton was born in Portsmouth, Feb. 29, 1738. He served as a soldier in the French and Indian War, and after- wards became a colonel in the New Hampshire militia. October 20, 1761, he married Mary Clark, who was born Dec. 17, 1737, and died in Wolfeborough, March 17, 1798. Col. Cotton came to Wolfeborough in 1781, and settled on the farm now owned by his great grandson, Albert W. Cotton. ... Dudley P. Cotton, a son of his, went to the West Indies and became wealthy. Subsequently he returned to Wolfeborough, and purchased a farm in the neighborhood where he was born, purposing to make it his future abode. He contributed quite generously for the improvement of the highways and schools in the neighborhood, but not receiving so ardent co-operative response to his acts as he desired, he disposed of his property and returned to his island home, where he soon after died.
A remarkable debut in London is made by a young American artist of great promise, Mrs. Mariette Cotton, who has evidently acquired from her master, M. Carolus-Duran, many of the secrets of his powerful palette, and with them his felicity in the simple and direct presentation of a subject. In the half-length in oils, "F. T. Martin, Esq.," as in the pastel, "Mrs. Mahlon Sands," the youthful portrait painter reveals exceptional technical accomplishments. Her standpoint is as yet very naturally ultra-French; and, after the fashion of many of her most accomplished fellow countrymen, she too strongly tinges with this acquired colour the personality of her sitters. But if she can retain the technical mastery thus early achieved in the French atelier, while more fully developing her own artistic individuality, she will be able to accomplish great things.
Name: Marietta Cotton; Event Type: Passport Application; Event Date: 1921; Event Place: France; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 17 May 1868; Birthplace: New York
Event Date: 17 Apr 1947; Event Place: Manhattan, New York, New York, United States Address: 230 East 51st St.; Residence Place: New York, New York, New York; Gender: Female; Age: 80; Marital Status: Divorced; Race: White; Occupation: housewife; Birth Date: 17 May 1866; Birthplace: U.S.A.; Burial Date: 21 Apr 1947; Cemetery: Fresh Pond Crematory; Father's Name: Samuel T. Benedict; Father's Birthplace: U.S.A.; Mother's Name: Julia J. Jackson; Mother's Birthplace: U.S.A.; Spouse's Name: Leslie
Mrs. Leslie Cotton, in the short time she has lived in this city, has won an enviable reputation as a portrait painter. A serious student of her art, she painted portraits long before she had any intention of taking up the work as a profession. Though a New Yorker, she spent much time abroad, and at one time lived in London and Paris, where she painted many well-known people, among them the duke of Cambridge.
