ID 1086602
Lot 40 | SIR PETER LELY (SOEST, WESTPHALIA 1618-1680 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
The Carnarvon Family: Group portrait of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1632-1709), his wife Elizabeth, née the Hon. Elizabeth Capel (1633-1678), and their children Charles, Viscount Ascott (1652-before 1673) and Elizabeth, later Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (1653-1677)
signed with monogram 'PL' (centre right) and inscribed 'Carolus Dormer Contes Carnarv. et Uxor eius Eliz. Fil: Bar. Capell una cum Liberis Car. et Elizabetha' (centre)
oil on canvas
61 ½ x 85 ¾ in. (156.2 x 217.8 cm.)
in an English Palladian frame, carved with gadroons, bead-and-reel and egg-and-dart decoration, with scrolled ornament and outset corners, second quarter of 18th century
Provenance
Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1632-1709), and by descent through his second daughter,
Isabella Dormer, Countess of Mountrath (1663-1691), wife of Charles Coote, 3rd Earl of Mountrath (1656-1709), and by descent; Christie’s, London, 6 December 2011, lot 7, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
R.B. Beckett, Lely, London, 1951, pp. 14 and 38, no. 66, fig. 65.
E. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530-1790, rev. ed., New Haven, 1994, pp. 97 and 98, fig. 78.
| Artist: | Peter Lely (1618 - 1680) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Peter Lely (1618 - 1680) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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