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Sir Peter Lely (Westphalia 1618-1680 London)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more The Property of a Descendant of James Thursby Pelham (lots 160-163) (Lots 112-124 in the Old Master & British Pictures sale at Christie's South Kensington on 5 December 2007 are from the same property)
Sir Peter Lely (Westphalia 1618-1680 London)

Portrait of lady, traditionally identified as Jane, wife of Sir Nicholas Pelham, bust-length, in a grey dress and pearls, in a sculpted cartouche

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Sir Peter Lely (Westphalia 1618-1680 London)
Portrait of lady, traditionally identified as Jane, wife of Sir Nicholas Pelham, bust-length, in a grey dress and pearls, in a sculpted cartouche
oil on canvas
30¼ x 25 in. (76.7 x 63.5 cm.)
Literature
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Sir Peter Lely, by the late Sir O. Millar, D. Dethloff and C. MacLeod, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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Lot Essay

This portrait can be dated stylistically to the mid-1650s. The traditional identification of the sitter as Jane, wife of Sir Nicholas Pelham (c. 1650-1739), can be discounted on the basis of her husband's dates and the fact that the couple were married in November 1764. Lely did paint other female members of the Pelham family, for example Lady Lucy Pelham (d. 1685) (Private Collection, UK).

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