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circle of Peter Lely, ? Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- ? Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond
- Date
- ? c.mid–1660s
- Location
- The Great Hall
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 243 cm, Overall width: 145 cm
- Artist
- circle of Peter Lely (1618-1680)
- Catalogue Number
- DN3
- Inscription
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- Lettered bottom left 'MARY OF MODENA' and bottom right ‘LELY'
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, p. 224
Footnotes
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RCIN 404514.
1
Description
The portrait is identified by an inscription on the canvas as Mary of Modena (1658–1718), second wife of James II. In the late nineteenth century, when it hung in the Long Gallery, Cole noted, ‘Mary of Modena, wife of James II. (?); a portrait of whom was at Seaton Delaval’. The portrait is not, however, of Mary of Modena. Rather, the sitter appears to resemble Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond (1647–1702), as is suggested by a comparison with Lely’s portrait of the same sitter in the Royal Collection.1 At some stage the portrait, which was three-quarter length, has been extended on all sides to form a full-length portrait, as with a number the portraits of the Hussey daughters by Kneller (DN1 and DN2).