Lely (Studio of), Peter (1616 – 1680) – Portrait of a Woman Wearing Pearls.
Lely (Studio of), Peter (1616 - 1680)
Portrait of a Woman Wearing Pearls.
Chalks heightened with white. 1660s. Provenance: William Esdaile (1758-1837), his stamp [L.2617] recto; Robert Prioleau Roupell (1798-1886), his mark [L.2234] to the old backing; Sir Bruce Ingram OBE MC (1887-1963). Exhibited: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 'Five Centuries
of Drawings', 1953, Cat. No.224 as Peter Lely (Lent by Sir Bruce Ingram); Michael Ingram; Sotheby's 6th June 2007, Lot 163 (part); [...] Philip Mould, 2015, as Attributed to John Greenhill (c.1644-1676); Andrew Clayton-Payne.
£25,000
This beautiful drawing is an example of a type of portrait that was popular from the 1660s into the early eighteenth century. Lely called them his 'Craions' and made them as independent works, rather than studies for paintings. This sheet is stylistically so similar to Lely's drawings and on the same paper used for his famous 'Portrait of a Girl, possibly Elizabeth Seymour' (BM 1983,0723.35) that it must surely have been made in his studio.
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This work appears in the Exhibition:
British Works on Paper 2026 (Incl. David Bindman Collection)