Cotton House - Marlborough College
Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art
OCTOBER 13, 2013
My first house portrait completed, although it's not a private home but a boarding house instead. Cotton House is named after George Edward Lynch Cotton a well known victorian bishop and former headmaster of Marlborough College. Bishop Cotton left the college in 1858 to take up the office of Bishop of Calcutta, India. While in India, Bishop Cotton organised for shipments of clothing especially socks to be delivered to the poor Indian children he encountered on his travels.
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