The Property of a Gentleman
Sir Peter Lely
Self-Portrait
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Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
Sir Peter Lely
(Soest 1618 - 1680 London)
Self-portrait
Black and coloured chalks heightened with white;
signed lower right: PLely. fe. on H. (PL in monogram)
386 by 311 mm
By descent within the family of the artist until,
sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 2016, lot 216,
where acquired by the present owner
London, Grosvenor Place, The Reign of Charles II, 1932, no. 346;
London, National Portrait Gallery, 1932;
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1956-57, no. 555;
London, National Portrait Gallery, Sir Peter Lely, 1978, no. 70 (catalogue by O. Millar), illustrated as the frontispiece;
London, British Museum, and New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth, 1987, no. 89 (catalogue by L. Stainton and C. White), illustrated as the frontispiece;
on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1989-2016)
G. Vertue, 'Notebooks I-VI', Walpole Society, vol. XVIII, 1930, p. 143;
J. Woodward, Tudor and Stuart Drawings, London 1951, p. 38;
P. Hulton, 'Sir Peter Lely: Portrait Drawings of his Family', Connoisseur, vol. CLIV, London 1963, pp. 166-70, no. 1
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