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Portrait of John Selden (1584-1654), half-length
Details
Circle of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 - 1680 London)
Portrait of John Selden (1584-1654), half-length
oil on canvas
48 ½ x 38 ½ in. (123.2 x 97.8 cm.)
Portrait of John Selden (1584-1654), half-length
oil on canvas
48 ½ x 38 ½ in. (123.2 x 97.8 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) commissioned by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674), Clarendon House, London, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Musgrave, BM Add. MS 6391, ff.77 (The Grove, 1764), no. 26.
G.P. Harding, List of Portraits, Pictures in Various Mansions in the United Kingdom, London, 1804, II, p. 211.
Lady T. Lewis, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, 1852, III, pp. 251, 256 and 350-352.
P. Toynbee, ‘Horace Walpole’s journals of visits to country seats, &c.’, The Walpole Society, XVI, 1927, p. 38.
G.P. Harding, List of Portraits, Pictures in Various Mansions in the United Kingdom, London, 1804, II, p. 211.
Lady T. Lewis, Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, 1852, III, pp. 251, 256 and 350-352.
P. Toynbee, ‘Horace Walpole’s journals of visits to country seats, &c.’, The Walpole Society, XVI, 1927, p. 38.
Exhibited
Plymouth, City Art Gallery, Paintings from the Clarendon Collection, 1954, no. 29.
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