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The Property of the Rt Hon. The Earl of Jersey

Sir Peter Lely

Portrait of a Lady in profile

Auction Closed

July 5, 10:16 AM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 80,000 GBP

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The Property of the Rt Hon. The Earl of Jersey

Sir Peter Lely

Soest 1618 - 1680 London

Portrait of a Lady in profile


Black and red chalk heightened with white

255 by 203 mm

Possibly Sir Peter Lely’s executor’s sale, London, Covent Garden, 18 April 1682;
Sir Francis Child (1642-1714), 42 Lincoln's Inn Fields, by 1706,
by descent to his son, Sir Robert Child (1674-1721) of Osterley Park,
by descent to his brother, Sir Francis Child, the younger (1684-1740) of Osterley Park,
by descent to his brother, Samuel Child (1693-1752) of Osterley Park,
by descent to his son, Francis Child (1735-1763) of Osterley Park,
by descent to his brother, Robert Child (1739-1782) of Osterley Park and 38 Berkeley Square, London,
by descent to his wife, Sarah Child (d. 1793),
by descent to her grand-daughter, Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1785-1867), who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison (1773-1859) of Osterley Park, Middlesex and Middleton Park, Oxfordshire (recorded as hanging at Osterley Park, by 1915),
by family descent
London, Arts Council, Old Masters from the Jersey Collection, 1952, no. 28;
London, Royal Academy, British Portraits, 1956-7, no. 393;
London, National Portrait Gallery, Sir Peter Lely, 1978, no. 71
Sir Francis Child, A Catalogue of my pictures in my house in Lincoln's Inn fields taken March 9, 1706 and of my drawings (as no. 51 A woman’s head in profile, by Sir Peter Lilly);
O. Miller, Sir Peter Lely, exh. cat., London, National Portrait Gallery, 1978, p. 77, no. 71

For further information on the work please refer to lot 5.