Lot 113
113
Cornelius Johnson (London 1593-1661 Utrecht)
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Cornelius Johnson (London 1593-1661 Utrecht)

Portrait of Lady Lucy Pelham (d.1685), half-length, in a blue dress with pearl ornaments, and a grey wrap

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Cornelius Johnson (London 1593-1661 Utrecht)
Portrait of Lady Lucy Pelham (d.1685), half-length, in a blue dress with pearl ornaments, and a grey wrap
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.3 x 63.5 cm.)
in a silvered Lely-panel frame
Provenance
By descent from the sitter to the present owner.
Literature
A. Finberg, 'A Chronological list of portraits by Cornelius Johnson', The Walpole Society, XX, 1922, p.30, no.87, fig. LXII.
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Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester. She married Sir John Pelham, 3rd Bt. of Halland, in 1647. She was also painted by Sir Peter Lely, in the Collection of the Earl of Yarborough, exhibited in the Lely Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, 1978, no.9. See lot 121 for a portrait of her son, Thomas Pelham of Laughton, 1st Bt.

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