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Portrait of Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham

Thomas Wright and Sir Peter van der Faes Lely

Portrait of Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham

1832

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Portrait of Margaret Brooke, Lady Denham

1832

Physical Qualities Stipple and etching on chine collé, Sheet: 360 × 245 mm. (14 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.) Plate: 290 × 200 mm. (11 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.4520
Illustration in Anna Brownwell Jameson's 'Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II' (London: 1833). See BM 1859,0709.1115. Sitter is named Elizabeth in the cited printed sources [and in 18th century prints] but Mary at the Royal Collection. After the painting by Lely at Hampton Court RCIN 401212. The painitng is part of the "Windsor Beauties", a famous collection of paintings by Sir Peter Lely, painted in the early to mid-1660s. The name stems from the original location of the collection, which was housed in the Queen's bedchamber in Windsor Castle. They can now be seen at Hampton Court Palace.

Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Denham"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Engraver

Thomas Wright

1791–1848

English, 1792-1849
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Artist

Sir Peter van der Faes Lely

1617–1679

English, born Germany, 1618-1680
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