Lot 40
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Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618-1680 London) and Studio
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618-1680 London) and Studio

Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649-1734), three-quarter-length, in a brown dress and blue cloak, a landscape beyond

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Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618-1680 London) and Studio
Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649-1734), three-quarter-length, in a brown dress and blue cloak, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
49 ½ x 40 ¼ in. (125.7 x 102.3 cm.)
Literature
S. Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst, Catalogue of the Bathurst Collection of Pictures, London, 1908, pp. 58-59, illustrated.
C. MacLeod and J. Marciari Alexander, Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II, exhibition catalogue, London, 2001, p. 143, under no. 49, fig. 35, as 'Studio of Sir Peter Lely'.

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Lot Essay

Lely painted a number of versions of Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, the famed beauty and mistress of Charles II. The present painting relates most closely to the portrait at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, though her russet gown is closer to that in her slightly earlier portrait now in the collection of the Earls of Sutherland.

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