LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black and colored chalks heightened with white

Measurements:

15.20 in. (38.60 cm.) (height) by 12.24 in. (31.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower right: PLely fe on H (PL in monogram )

Exhibited:

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, . Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth , 1987, no. 89 (catalogue by L. Stainton and C. White), illustrated as the frontispiece;. New Haven, Yale Centre 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).

Literature:

Vertue,. ' Notebooks I-VI',. Walpole Society , vol. XVIII, 1930, p. 143;. John 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

Provenance:

By descent within the family of the artist.