Peter Lely

Germany / Netherlands / England, b.1618, d.1680 (Studio of)

Portrait Duchess Of Richmond

  • Oil on canvas
  • 1269 x 1015mm
  • 78/21

Tags: academicism, draperies (curtains), dresses (garments), earrings (jewelry), jewelry, necklaces, nobles (aristocrats), people (agents), portraits, vases, women (female humans)

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German-born Dutch artist Peter Lely settled in England in 1643 during turbulent times. He established a large studio and became the leading portrait painter to the royal court. Paris-born Frances Stuart arrived in London in 1663 after the Restoration. She served as a royal maid-of-honour and rejected Charles II’s intention to make her his queen. Frances was the model for Britannia on a 1667 commemorative peace medal, and her image was repeated thereafter in British coinage.

(Out of Time, 23 September 2023 – 28 April 2024)

Exhibition History

Andreas Cellarius Hypothesis Ptolemaica Sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos Et Epicyclos Demonstrans [The Ptolemaic Hypothesis or Common Representation Demonstrating the Planetary Motions through Eccentrics and Epicycles] 1661. Hand-coloured engraving. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, William A. Sutton bequest, 2000
Out of Time
After Carlo Saraceni The Holy Family Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū; presented by the Estate of Dr J P Whetter, 1940.
For Tasman and Cook: Early Works from the Gallery's Collection
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This label is on the back of the painting and shows that the the firm of Wiliam and Philip Evans created or worked on the frame, or worked on the painting itself. They occupied premises in Beak Street only between 1884 and 1907 so whatever work they undertook was done in that period.

This label is on the back of the painting and shows that the the firm of Wiliam and Philip Evans created or worked on the frame, or worked on the painting itself. They occupied premises in Beak Street only between 1884 and 1907 so whatever work they undertook was done in that period.

This label is on the back of the frame and appears to show that the frame, and possibly the painting within it, were once owned by Lady Alice Mahon, née Browne (1877-1970), daughter of the Fifth Marquis of Sligo and mother of collector and art historian John Denis  Mahon (1910-2011).

This label is on the back of the frame and appears to show that the frame, and possibly the painting within it, were once owned by Lady Alice Mahon, née Browne (1877-1970), daughter of the Fifth Marquis of Sligo and mother of collector and art historian John Denis  Mahon (1910-2011).