# Sir Rowland Cotton [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SOMER, Paulus van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 112 x 87 cm ## Commentary Sir Rowland Cotton \(1577-1634\) of Alkington Hall, Whitechurch, and Bellaport Hall, Shropshire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1605 and 1629. The sitter is wearing one of the most resplendent costume pieces of this period and the silk doublet and breeches are virtuosically tailored with deep slashing on the doublet to reveal a layer of blue silk beneath. Remarkably, the splendid costume has survived, and today is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. ## Related artworks - [An Unknown Noblewoman]() - [Anne of Denmark]() - [Elizabeth Pierrepont, Countess of Kellie]() - [Elizabeth Wriothesley, née Vernon, Countess of Southampton]() - [George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham]() - [James I of England \(James VI of Scotland\)]() - [The 1st Earl of Monmouth and his Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()