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SIR PETER LELY (SOEST, WESTPHALIA 1618-1680 LONDON) AND STUDIO

Lot 20
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +00:00
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£ 567 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1239228
Lot 20 | SIR PETER LELY (SOEST, WESTPHALIA 1618-1680 LONDON) AND STUDIO
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
SIR PETER LELY (SOEST, WESTPHALIA 1618-1680 LONDON) AND STUDIO
Portrait of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and later Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), full-length, seated in a silver dress and blue drapery, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
71 x 56 in. (180.4 x 142.2 cm.)
with identifying inscription 'Duchess of Cleveland.' (lower right)




Provenance

James Duff, 2nd Earl of Fife in the peerage of Ireland (1729-1809), by 1798, and by descent until 1962, when acquired by the family of the present owner.



Literature

James Duff, 2nd Earl of Fife, Catalogue of the Portraits & Prints in the Different Houses belonging to James Earl of Fife, London, 1798, p. 24, no. 24; 1807, p. 52, no. 24, where listed in the North Drawing Room, Duff House, near Banff.
(Possibly) K. Warren Clouston and M. Crosby Smith, ‘The Duke of Fife’s Collection at Duff House Part I’, The Connoisseur, X, September-December 1904, p. 73, as ‘Kneller’, where listed in the Ante Drawing-Room.
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