Downman sometimes spelled Dowman.
A very recent search of the National Trust collection website came up with two portraits described as of Mrs Coade by Downman at Mompesson House, Salisbury.
The first no. 1 is a distinct possibility. The second definitely not!
1. A Portrait of Mrs Coade. A framed pastel drawing, signed 'Downman, 1806'.
Size 330 x 267 mm.
Inventory number - NT 724310
Downman had moved to Plymouth, Devon in 1806 - where he got married
https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/Details/museum/433678
Eleanor Coade (1733 - 1821).
She would have been 73 if this very fine portrait is of her.
2.Called on the NT Collection website Portrait of Mrs Coade.
Framed, pastel, signed 'Downman,
1806'.
Inventory number - NT 724311
330 x 267 mm
https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/Details/museum/433679
The Huntington Library Portrait of Mrs Coll. Hall.
John Downman.
Date1806.
Medium pencil, black and red chalk
Dimensions12 1/2 × 10 in. (31.8 × 25.4 cm.) mat: 22 × 16 in.
(55.9 × 40.6 cm.)
Inscribed on mount: Mrs. Coll. Hall 1806 / Plymouth Dock.
https://emuseum.huntington.org/people/210/john-downman/objects
Medium black stump touched with red.
Dimensions11 × 8 3/4 in. (27.9 × 22.2 cm.)
Friends of Huntington Art Gallery 1959 given to; Huntington
Library & Art Gallery, San Marino
Huntington Library, San Marino California.
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John Downman; His life and works. With a catalogue of his drawings.
by Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942.
Published Otto, Ltd., London, 1907.
https://photoarchive.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/search/Downman
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