An Unknown Man
manner of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
735 x 605 mm
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129145
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Man, manner of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680). Bust portrait, turned slightly to the left, gazing at spectator, wearing black dress and white lawn collar; long yellow hair.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist previously catalogued as after Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist