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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 4, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 18 | $****** - ****** | DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF HENRY HYDE, VISCOUNT CORNBURY, LATER 2ND EARL OF CLARENDON (1688-1709) AND HIS WIFE, THEODOSIA CAPEL, VISCOUNTESS CORNBURY |
paintings
143 x 181.5 cm (56.3 x 71.46 in)
oil on canvas
signed with initials on the base of the sculpture: PL (in monogram)
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 4th Earl of Clarendon (1672–1753)
By transfer to his son, Henry, Viscount Cornbury (1710–1753) in 1749, who died without issue
By inheritance to his niece, Lady Charlotte Capel (1721–1790), who married Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1709–1786) of the second creation, and transferred to The Grove, Hertfordshire
Thence by direct descent to the present owner.
London, British Institution, 1861, no. 175;London, South Kensington Museum, National Portraits Exhibition, 1866, no. 900;London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1906;London, Royal Academy, The Age of Charles II, 1960, no. 83;London, Tate Gallery, The Swagger Portrait, Grand Manner Portraiture in Britian from Van Dyck to Augustus John 1630-1930, 14 October 1992 – 10 January 1993, no. 10;Plymouth, long term loan to Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
Clarendon State Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Bodleian MS Clarendon 92, ff. 253–54, no. 8, recorded at Cornbury Park, circa 1683: 'Over ye Chilmly, My Lord Clarendon wth his Lady';George Vertue's notebook, A.g., 1725, British Museum Add. MS 23,070 [V. 66b, B.M. 57b] (as hanging at Cornbury Park, 1725);Sir W. Musgrave, List of Portraits, BM Add. MS 6391, f. 77, no. 34 (hanging at The Grove in 1764);G. P. Harding, List of Portraits, Pictures in Various mansions in the United Kingdom, MS in NPG, London, 1804, vol. II, p. 210;J. Orchard, Inventory of Sundry Furniture and Effects at The Grove Hertfordshire the Property of the-Rt-Honble-the-Earl-of-Clarendon, March 1824, Clarendon MS, n.p. (listed hanging among the pictures hanging in the Dining Room at The Grove - Lord and Lady Cornbury, Lely).Lady T. Lewis, Lives of the friends and contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon: Illustrative of portraits in his Gallery, 3 vols, London 1852, vol. III, pp. 257 and 377–79, cat. no. 67;C.H. Collins Baker, Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters, 2 vols., London 1912, vol. I, p. 166, reproduced facing p. 164 and vol. II, pp. 125 and 162–63 (recorded as hanging at The Grove);P. Toynbee, 'Horace Walpole's journals of visits to country seats, &c', in The Walpole Society, vol. XVI, Oxford 1927, p. 38 (listed at The Grove in 1761);'Vertue Note Books, volume II', in The Walpole Society, vol. XX, Oxford 1932, p. 65 (where Vertue records the picture hanging at Cornbury House in 1725);R.W. Goulding, Catalogue of the Pictures belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, Cambridge 1936, pp. 134–35;R.B. Beckett, Lely, London 1951, p. 41, no. 122, reproduced, pl. 76;O. Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and early Georgian pictures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, 2 vols, London 1963, text vol., p. 117 (under entry for cat. no. 217);R. Gibson, Catalogue of portraits in the collection of the Earl of Clarendon, privately published, London 1977, pp. 31–32, cat. no. 30 and Appendix I, p. 138; A. Wilton, The Swagger Portrait, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London 1992, pp. 82–83, cat. no. 10, reproduced in colour.
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.
