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* Sir Peter Lely Soest 1618-1680 London
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Description
- Sir Peter Lely
- Portrait of Lady Margaret Parker
three-quarter length, seated wearing a blue gown and holding a toy spaniel in her lap, a fountain and landscape at left
- oil on canvas
Catalogue Note
The sitter was the daughter of Rt. Rev. Alexander Hyde, Bishop of Salisbury (1598-1667), a first cousin of Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon and brother fo the judge, Sir Robert Hyde. In 1665, she married Sir Henry Parker, 2nd Bart and bore him a number of children. On the death of her brother, she succeeded to her father's inheritance, which included the Heale estates in the Amesbury valley.