Lady Anne Percy, Lady Stanhope (1633-1654)
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1655 - 1660
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1250 x 1000 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486191
Caption
The sitter in this picture was anonymous when first recorded at Petworth. She was subsequently called Lady Mary Cecil, Lady Sandys (c.1631 - c.1678/9), the 4th daughter of the 2nd Earl of Salisbury and wife of William, 6th Lord Sandys. She is, however more probably Lady Anne Percy, Lady Stanhope, younger sister of Lady Elizabeth Percy, later Countess of Essex, and the only other daughter of the 10th Earl of Northumberland to survive into womanhood. In 1652 she was married to Philip, Lord Stanhope (c.1634 - 1714), who was to succeed his grandfather in 1656 (two years after her death) as 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, as the first of his three wives. After his marriage, Lord Stanhope lived at Petworth with his father-in-law, who had retreated there after the execution of Charles I.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Anne Percy, Lady Stanhope (1633-1654) by Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), circa.1655-1660. A three quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, looking slightly to the left, her right hand on the head of a sculptured dolphin-fountain and wearing a grey dress, with an old-gold mantle against a foliage background.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist