Anne Hyde, Duchess of York

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, by Sir Peter Lely, based on a work of circa 1668-1670 -NPG 241 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York

after Sir Peter Lely
based on a work of circa 1668-1670
29 1/4 in. x 24 3/4 in. (743 mm x 629 mm)
NPG 241

This portraitback to top

The hint of corpulence suggests a date of c.1668-70.
Apparently derived from Lely’s seated three-quarter-length portrait at Knole, which shows a windswept tree in the left background. [1] Half-length versions similar to NPG 241 are in the Clarendon collection [2] and were sold Sotheby’s, 16 July 1952, lot 70 from the collection of Lord Brocket, and Sotheby’s, 13 July 1988, lot 151, and 15 July 1992, lot 121.

Footnotesback to top

1) C. J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 1929, II, p 428.
2) Illus. R. Gibson, Catalogue of Portraits in the collection of the Earl of Clarendon, 1977, no.144 as c.1670. A copy by S. Harding is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Sutherland collection, Clarendon).

Referenceback to top

Piper 1963
D. Piper, Catalogue of the Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, 1963, p 389.

Provenanceback to top

Purchased from a Mrs Holbrooke 1867.

Exhibitionsback to top

Lyme Park 1997–.


This extended catalogue entry is from the National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Later Stuart Portraits 1685–1714, National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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