Lot 22
22
Sir Peter Lely (Westphalia 1618-1680 London)
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Sir Peter Lely (Westphalia 1618-1680 London)

A lady, seated by a fountain, with a dog and a child, in a landscape

Details
Sir Peter Lely (Westphalia 1618-1680 London)
A lady, seated by a fountain, with a dog and a child, in a landscape
oil on panel
12¼ x 15½ in. (31 x 39.5 cm.)
Literature
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Sir Peter Lely, currently being compiled by Sir O. Millar and D. Dethloff for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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Lot Essay

The present painting is likely to date to the 1640s. Lely trained under Frans Pieter de Grebber at the Guild of St Luke in Haarlem, before moving to London in 1643. The present picture is characteristic of the subject paintings that Lely executed early in his career, before turning increasingly to portraiture. He often re-used motifs in these subject paintings; the detail of the lady's arm stroking a dog in this painting, for example, also appears in Lely's Concert of circa 1640 to 1649 (Courtauld Gallery of Art, London).

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