File:A young woman and child, as Venus and Cupid, by Peter Lely.jpg

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Peter Lely: Portrait of a young woman (either Barbara Villiers or Nell Gwyn) and child, as Venus and Cupid  wikidata:Q123332160 reasonator:Q123332160
Artist
Peter Lely  (1618–1680)  wikidata:Q161336
 
Peter Lely
Alternative names
Sir Peter Lely, Peter Lelio, Peter Lilley, Peter Lilly, Peter Lylly, Pieter Lelij, Birth name: Pieter van der Faes
Description Dutch painter and art collector
Date of birth/death 14 September 1618 Edit this at Wikidata 30 November 1680 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Soest London
Work period between circa 1637 and circa 1680
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1637-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Haarlem (6 October 1637), London (1641-1680), Amsterdam (1656)
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creator QS:P170,Q161336
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Title
Portrait of a young woman (either Barbara Villiers or Nell Gwyn) and child, as Venus and Cupid
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a young woman (either Barbara Villiers or Nell Gwyn) and child, as Venus and Cupid"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Presumed portrait of Nell Gwyn (1650-1687), mistress of Charles II of England (1630-1685)
Date 17th century
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 123.8 cm (48.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 156.8 cm (61.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+123.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+156.8U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
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Object history

Provenance:

  • Possibly King Charles II (1630-1685);
  • Possibly King James II (1633-1701);
  • Possibly taken from Whitehall by his son-in-law, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721), husband of Katherine Darnley, King James II's natural daughter by Catherine Sedley, and recorded at Buckingham House, Middlesex, by G. Vertue in an inventory of 1746;
  • Presumably either sold by the Duke's natural son, Sir John Sheffield, 1st Bt. (c. 1706-1774), on the sale of Buckingham House to King George III, or removed to Normanby Hall or another residence;
  • Possibly purchased by William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787-1872), and by descent to George Henry, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (1855-1882), by 1879;
  • Lowther Castle Sale; Lowther Castle, Wyatt, 30 April 1947, as a portrait of Nell Gywn;
  • G. Houghton-Brown; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 February 1950, lot 76, as a portrait of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (when purchased by Denys Bower);
  • Auction: Christie's, 5 July 2007, The Sale of the Trustees of the Denys Eyre Bower Bequest, removed from Chiddingstone Castle in Kent, London, Live Auction 7413 - Important Old Master and British Pictures (Evening Sale), lot 57 (bt. for £1,588,000 by the present owner) [1] [2] [3]
  • Auction: Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2011, Old Master And British Paintings Evening Sale, lot 42 [4]
Exhibition history
  • London, Royal Academy, British Portraits, 1956-57, no. 157;
  • London, National Portrait Gallery, The Masque of Beauty, 1972, no. 14 (as of Nell Gwyn);
  • London, National Portrait Gallery, Sir Peter Lely 1678-80, 1978, no. 44.
Source/Photographer Sotheby's
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