Live Auction 5858Old Masters & 19th Century Works of Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 63

Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646-1723 London)

Portrait of Lucy Pelham-Holles, Countess of Lincoln (d. 1736), three-quarter-length, in riding habit, in a landscape

Closed10 July 2009

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Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646-1723 London)
Portrait of Lucy Pelham-Holles, Countess of Lincoln (d. 1736), three-quarter-length, in riding habit, in a landscape
signed and dated 'GKneller· f. 1722' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50½ x 40½ in. (128.3 x 102.9 cm.)

By descent in the sitter's family to John Nicholas Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester, Stanmer Park, Sussex, (sold by order of the Trustees); Christie's, London, 14 February 1969, lot 27 (170 gns. to Eyles).
Anonymous sale: Christie's, London 20 June 1969, lot 2 (140 gns. to the husband of the present owner).

Specialist note

The sitter was the daughter of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton (d. 1712), and sister of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Line. She married in May 1717 Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln (1684-1728), who served as Paymaster of the Forces (1715-27), Constable of the Tower of London (1723-5) and Cofferer of the Household (1725-8). Their eldest son, George Clinton, 8th Earl, died as a child and was succeeded by his younger brother, Henry Clinton, 9th Earl, who also served as Cofferer of the Household, as well as Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire.