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SIR PETER LELY (SOEST 1618-1680 LONDON)

Lot 174
31.01.2024 14:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1126338
Lot 174 | SIR PETER LELY (SOEST 1618-1680 LONDON)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
SIR PETER LELY (SOEST 1618-1680 LONDON)

Portrait of the Honorable Mrs Grimston, née Finch, afterwards Lady Elizabeth Grimston (1650-1675), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress, resting her left arm on a pedestal

oil on canvas

50 3⁄8 x 41 in. (128 x 150.3 cm.)

with identifying inscription ‘Honble Mrs Grimston.’ (lower left)





Provenance

The Earls of Winchilsea and Nottingham, Burley-on-the- Hill, near Oakham, Rutland, and by descent to,

Major James Hanbury (1914-1971); [The Property of Major James Hanbury, and have been removed from Burley-on-Hill, near Oakham, Rutland]; Christie's, London, 20 June 1947, lot 57 (50 gns. to the following).

with Spink and Son, London.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 July 1953, lot 130 (22 gns. to Pine).

[Property from a Distinguished Private Collection]; Christie’s, New York, 5 February 2013, lot 86.

with Fergus Hall, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.



Literature

P. Finch, History of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, II, London, 1901, p. 40, West Passage Landing, no. 1.

R.B. Beckett, Lely, London, 1951, p. 47, no. 229, as dating to 'c. 1664'.
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