Studio of Sir Peter Lely

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Studio of Sir Peter Lely
Portrait of Eleanora Lee, Lady Norreys, later Countess of Abingdon (1658- 1691)
oil on canvas

Provenance

Earl of Abingdon (1836- 1928) collection;

George P. Dudley Wallis, London.

Exhibited

R. B. Beckett, English Master Painters: Lely, London 1951, under I. Portraits, cat. no. 2, reproduced plate 122.

Catalogue Note

George P. Dudley Wallis was curator at the Holburne Museum in Bath from 1913-1917. In 1922 he was appointed Curator of the Gallery at the Manchester Whitworth Institute. He was a collector of British painters.