Lady Elizabeth Pope, Lady Lee, later Countess of Lindsey (1660-1719) as Diana
Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1680 - 1696
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hatchlands Park, Surrey (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Hatchlands Park, Surrey, London and South East, National Trust
NT 1165913
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Elizabeth Pope, Lady Lee, later Countess of Lindsey (1660-1719) as Diana by Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696). A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman wearing a blue and red silk dress in the guise of Diana, virgin goddess of the hunt and a representation to infer beauty, purity and chaste virtue that was once identified as Catherine of Braganza, queen consort of Charles II, whose favourite painter Huysmans was, first recorded as being in England in 1662. The greyhound is suggestive of Diana's hunting pack.Previously called a Portrait of Isabella, Lady Levinge, mother-in-law to Archbishop Cobbe, by James Latham.
Provenance
Harold Arthur,17th Viscount Dillon of Ditchley sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 May 1933, lot 70 (as Sir Peter Lely); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 January 1980, lot 64 (as Lely); acquired at sale, Christie's, New York, 15 October 19998, lot 11; on loan from the Cobbe Collection (457)
Makers and roles
Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist previously catalogued as attributed to James Latham (Tipperary 1696 - Dublin 1747), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist