ID 1239228
Lot 20 | SIR PETER LELY (SOEST, WESTPHALIA 1618-1680 LONDON) AND STUDIO
Valeur estimée
£ 120 000 – 180 000
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.
| Artiste: | Peter Lely (1618 - 1680) |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
| Artiste: | Peter Lely (1618 - 1680) |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Royaume-Uni | |
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