Arabella Bankes, Mrs Gilly (b.1642)
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1660 - 1665
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257043
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Arabella Bankes, Mrs Gilly (b.1642), by Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), circa 1660/1665. A three-quarter length portrait, seated on the plinth of a fountain, landscape background right, wearing a blue-grey satin dress; she holds a glass jar, its lid on her lap. Arabella Bankes, Mrs Gilly (b.1642), sixth daughter of Sir John Bankes (1589-1644) and Mary Hawtrey (1598-1661). She married Samuel Gilly of High Hall, Wimborne (the house which was later owned by John Fitch, whose brother Sir Thomas Fitch had contracted in 1663 to build the brickwork at Kingston Lacy under the direction of Sir Roger Pratt).
Provenance
Probably commissioned by the sitter's brother, Sir Ralph Bankes (?1631-1677), and thence by descent, until bequeathed by Henry John Ralph Bankes (1902 – 1981) to the National Trust, together with the estates of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy and its entire contents in 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist
References
Howarth 1993 David Howarth (ed.) Art and Patronage at the Caroline Courts, New York and Cambridge 1993, pp.107-31. MacLeod and Marciari Alexander 2001: Catherine MacLeod and Julia Marciari Alexander, Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II (exh cat), New Haven and London 2001, venues: National Portrait Gallery and Yale Centre for British Art 2001/2002, p. 50, fig. 19