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91.4 x 75.6 cm
[lower right] PL [in monogram]
- CollectionDulwich Picture Gallery
- PlaceLondon
- Inv. / Accession no.DPG563
- Acquired1911
- Notes / refs
- given anonymously by C.F. Murray (minutes of Picture Gallery Committee meeting 20 January 1911 [Gallery archive]: "1. Lely. 'Cowley as a Youth,' the Peel heirloom picture.")
- one of 46 paintings given 1911-17; more specifically, one of 34 "portraits made in England in the 17th and 18th Centuries" given by Murray between 1911 and 1914-15 and intended to form a "sequence of British portraiture in these centuries" (minutes of Picture Gallery Committee meeting, as above; compare Letter 00063)
- Collins Baker 1912, II, 122 ("cannot vouche for the correctness of this attribution", i.e. identification of sitter as Cowley)
- Dulwich Picture Gallery 1914, 287-88 (P. Lely, Abraham Cowley)
- Dulwich Picture Gallery 2008, 176 (unidentified sitter)
- Owner Murray, Charles Fairfax
- Place London, Siena, Florence, Tavarnuzze (Impruneta) & Paris
- From 21/01/1901
- Until 19110
- Notes / refs
- acquired from T. Agnew & Sons, London, for £1110 (Agnew's 1898-1904, no. 9348: Portrait of Cowley the Author)
- June 1905: one of 14 portraits "of absolutely unexceptional authenticity" (mostly signed and dated) proposed to E.W. Forbes for exhibition at Fogg Museum (Letter 00050; "Lely Cowley")
- lent to Royal Academy 1908 (cat. 157: Portrait of Abraham Cowley)
- Owner Agnew & Sons, Thomas
- Place London
- From 11/05/1900
- Until 21/01/1901
- Notes / refs
- acquired at Robinson & Fisher (Peel) 1900 (lot 203: A PORTRAIT OF COWLEY, THE AUTHOR. Signed) for 670 gns = £703.10.0 (Agnew's 1898-1904, no. 9348)
- Owner Peel, Sir Robert 4th Bart
- Place Drayton Manor (Staffs.)
- From 1895
- Until 11/05/1900
- Owner Peel, Sir Robert 3rd Bart
- Place Drayton Manor (Staffs.)
- From 1850
- Until d. 1895
- Owner Peel, Sir Robert 2nd Bart
- Place Drayton Manor (Staffs.)
- Until d. 1850
- Owner Seguier, William
- Place London
- From 05/1842
- Notes / refs
- acquired at Robins (Waldegrave) 1842 (lot 21: A Portrait of Cowley the poet in the character of a shepherd, with pipe and crook) for 10 gns
- Owner Waldegrave, George Edward 7th Earl
- Place Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London)
- From 1835
- Until 05/1842
- Owner Waldegrave, John James 6th Earl
- Place Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London)
- From 1797
- Until d. 1835
- Owner Walpole, Horace
- Place Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London)
- From 05/1776
- Until d. 1797
- Notes / refs
- acquired at Skinner (Lovibond) 1776
- Owner Lovibond, Edward
- Place Hanpton (London)
- From before 1770
- Until d. 1775
- Notes / refs
- still with Lovibond c. 1770 when seen by H. Walpole (Dulwich Picture Gallery 2008, 176)
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