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Copy after Sir Peter Lely (1618-80)
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-1671) c. 1665-1700
Oil on canvas | 239.5 x 136.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403268
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An early copy of RCIN 402852.
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-71) is depicted seated wearing a sumptuous amber coloured silk gown and holding in her right hand a tress of her hair that hangs loosely around her. The full-length design seen in this copy appears to have been painted later than the three-quarter length version which is also in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405641). Anne Hyde regularly patronised Lely and there were ten copies of his portraits of her in his studio at the time of his death.
Provenance
First recorded hanging over the chimney in the Blue Room in St James's Palace in 1710 (no 15); in the Gallery at Windsor Castle in 1792; by 1813 it is hanging in the Queen's Audience Chamber at Windsor, where it appears in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819 (RCIN 922100).
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
239.5 x 136.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
263.0 x 159.3 x 13.0 cm (frame, external)
