Portrait of Princess Isabella Stuart (1676-1681), seated full-length, beside a lamb, in a wooded landscape

Details

Sir Peter Lely and Studio (1618-1680)
Portrait of Princess Isabella Stuart (1676-1681), seated full-length, beside a lamb, in a wooded landscape
oil on canvas
51 x 40¾ in. (129.5 x 103.5 cm.)
in a carved and gilded Lely-panel frame

Provenance

H. A. Hammond Smith, New York, 1916.
Henry Blank; Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, 16 November 1949, lot 42 (as a portrait of the Duke of Richmond as a child).

Lot Essay

This portrait is a version of the portrait in the Royal Collection which was probably painted in 1677 (see O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 1963, I, p. 122, no. 246, II, pl. 117).

Princess Isabella was born on 28 August 1676, the daughter of King James II and his wife Mary of Modena, and died young in 1681.

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