Live Auction 7714Old Master & British Pictures
Christie’s roundel
Lot 32

Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618-1680 London)

Portrait of a lady, possibly Laetitia Cheke, half-length, in brown, in a sculpted cartouche

Closed24 April 2009

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Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618-1680 London)
Portrait of a lady, possibly Laetitia Cheke, half-length, in brown, in a sculpted cartouche
signed 'PLely.' ('PL' in monogram, lower left)
oil on canvas
29½ x 25 in. (75 x 63.5 cm.)

The Earls of Suffolk and Berkshire, Charlton Park, Wiltshire.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 February 1986, lot 260, as 'Portrait of a lady'.
Sir John Gielgud, South Pavilion, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire; (+) Sotheby's, London, 5 April 2001, lot 198, as 'Portrait of a lady, probably Laetitia Cheke'.