Pieter Lely

Literature

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 8

Provenance

the sitter's brother, Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex, Cassiobury Park, Watford, Hertfordshire, until died 1693
the Earls of Essex, Cassiobury Park, 1693–1916
Algernon George de Vere Capell, 8th Earl of Essex, Cassiobury Park, 1916–22
his sale, Knight, Frank & Rutley, Cassiobury Park, 15 June 1922, nr. 707
with Scott & Fowles, New York, until 1925, sold to Ruppert
Colonel Jacob Ruppert, New York and Garrison, N.Y., 1925–died 1939

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 39.65.6

Other works by Pieter Lely

Study for a Portrait of a Woman
1670s

Scene from History

Diana Bathing

Portrait of Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Dysart, with a Pageboy
c. 1650

Barbara Palmer, née Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland with her son, Charles Fitzroy, as Madonna and Child
c.1664