Queen Mary II (1662–1694), when Princess Mary of York, as Diana
after Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1672
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1040 x 780 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lytes Cary Manor, Somerset
NT 254676
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Queen Mary II (1662–1694) when Princess Mary of York, as Diana, after Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), circa 1672. She is depicted as Diana, the goddess of hunting. She is walking in a landscape drawing her bow and wearing a crescent moon on her head and is accompanied by a greyhound. She wears a sumptuous silk dress with a golden skirt and blue top. The painting is a copy after the original which has been in the Royal Collection since 1710 and another copy of which is in the Darlington Borough Art Collection.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust, along with the house, furniture and other contents collected by Sir Walter Jenner, 2nd Bt (1860 - 1948), in 1949.
Credit line
Lytes Cary Manor, The Jenner Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist
References
Millar 1963 Oliver Millar, The Tudor Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Oxford, 1963, 2 vols., No.249, p.122, illus 103