Lady Elizabeth Egerton, later Countess of Leicester (1653-1709)
studio of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1660
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1640 x 1245 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486257
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Elizabeth Egerton, later Countess of Leicester (1653-1709) by studio of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680). Full-length portrait of a young girl, standing, full face, with her body profile left and wearing a blue dress looped up in front with a white underskirt and with her hands folded in front. The background is of a landscape.
Provenance
Recorded at Petworth in 1785 and possibly at Penshurst in 1728, and in the Lay Yonge sale of Lady Sidney Sharrards (sic) half-share of the Leicester pictures, 10 May, 1764, lot 25. 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)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: in black ink, on small label: Ld Leconfield / Fr [?] 2.
Makers and roles
studio of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist