Pieter Lely
Sir Henry Capel
126.4 x 102.9 cmOil on canvas
Signed on base of column: PL (monogram)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939
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
Other works by Pieter Lely
Study for a Portrait of a Woman
1670s
1670s
Mary Capel, Later Duchess of Beaufort, and Her Sister Elizabeth, Countess of Carnarvon
Scene from History
Diana Bathing
Portrait of Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Dysart, with a Pageboy
c. 1650
c. 1650