Sir Peter Lely
Double Portrait Of Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, Later 2Nd Earl Of Clarendon (1688–1709) And His Wife, Theodosia Capel, Viscountess Cornbury
Estimate: 600.000 - 800.000 GBP
Price realised: 730.000 GBP
Price realised: 730.000 GBP
Description
Sir Peter Lely
SOEST 1618 - 1680 LONDON
DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF HENRY HYDE, VISCOUNT CORNBURY, LATER 2ND EARL OF CLARENDON (1688–1709) AND HIS WIFE, THEODOSIA CAPEL, VISCOUNTESS CORNBURY
signed with initials on the base of the sculpture: PL (in monogram)
oil on canvas, held in a magnificent early eighteenth-century carved wood frame
143 x 181.5 cm.; 56 1/4 x 71 1/2 in.
Commissioned by Viscount Cornbury or his father, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) to celebrate Lord Cornbury's marriage to Theodosia Capel in 1661 and recorded at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, circa 1683; | Purchased by the sitter's brother, Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1642–1711), together with Cornbury Park and all its contents in 1697; | By descent at Cornbury to his son, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Rochester and later
SOEST 1618 - 1680 LONDON
DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF HENRY HYDE, VISCOUNT CORNBURY, LATER 2ND EARL OF CLARENDON (1688–1709) AND HIS WIFE, THEODOSIA CAPEL, VISCOUNTESS CORNBURY
signed with initials on the base of the sculpture: PL (in monogram)
oil on canvas, held in a magnificent early eighteenth-century carved wood frame
143 x 181.5 cm.; 56 1/4 x 71 1/2 in.
Commissioned by Viscount Cornbury or his father, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609–1674) to celebrate Lord Cornbury's marriage to Theodosia Capel in 1661 and recorded at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, circa 1683; | Purchased by the sitter's brother, Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1642–1711), together with Cornbury Park and all its contents in 1697; | By descent at Cornbury to his son, Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Rochester and later
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