Live Auction 7981Old Master & British Paintings - Day Sale
Studio of Sir Peter Lely (Soest, Westphalia 1618-1680 London)
Lot 145

Studio of Sir Peter Lely (Soest, Westphalia 1618-1680 London)

Portrait of a girl, possibly Princess Isabella Stuart, daughter of King James II, full-length, with a garland of flowers in her hair, seated on a draped red velvet curtain, with a lamb, in a wooded landscape

Closed6 July 2011

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GBP 18,750

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Studio of Sir Peter Lely (Soest, Westphalia 1618-1680 London)
Portrait of a girl, possibly Princess Isabella Stuart, daughter of King James II, full-length, with a garland of flowers in her hair, seated on a draped red velvet curtain, with a lamb, in a wooded landscape
oil on canvas
49¾ x 39 7/8 in. (126.4 x 101.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale (Mrs. G. Barnes, New Malden); Christie's, London, 25 November 1938, lot 118 (15 gns. to F. Howard).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 June 2003, lot 7 (£9,560).

Specialist note

The prime version of this picture (Royal Collection, Hampton Court; see Sir O. Millar,The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen, London, 1963, p. 122, no. 246, illus. 117) is thought to have been painted in 1677 and, although the canvas has since been reduced, the original composition is recorded in the circa 1684 mezzotint by Alexander Browne. The present version shows the entire composition as seen in the mezzotint. Other versions and copies are recorded at Drayton and Berkeley Castle.