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Copy after Sir Peter Lely (1618-80)
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-1671) c. 1663-1710
Oil on canvas | 125.9 x 102.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404080
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A good early copy after RCIN 405641.
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-71) sat for Lely on several occasions; Pepys records seeing in Lely's studio in 1662 ‘the Duchesse of Yorke her whole body, sitting in state in a chair, in white Sattin'. Here the Duchess is shown in a copper-coloured gown, with her right hand fingering her flowing tresses of hair. A brown scarf is pinned around the neckline of her gown which is also decorated with pearls and jewelled clasps.Provenance
Possibly the painting described in the King's Gallery at Kensington Palace in 1790 (no 1); moved from here to Windsor Castle in 1795 (no 6); listed in the King's State Bedchamber at Windsor Castle in 1813 and 1816
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
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125.9 x 102.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
143.3 x 118.9 x 5.0 cm (frame, external)
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