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Peter Lely: Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696)  wikidata:Q19911998 reasonator:Q19911998
Artist
Peter Lely  (1618–1680)  wikidata:Q161336
 
Peter Lely
Alternative names
Sir Peter Lely, Peter Lelio, Peter Lilley, Peter Lilly, Peter Lylly, Pieter Lelij, Birth name: Pieter van der Faes
Description Dutch painter and art collector
Date of birth/death 14 September 1618 Edit this at Wikidata 30 November 1680 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Soest Edit this at Wikidata London
Work period between circa 1637 and circa 1680
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1637-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1680-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Haarlem (6 October 1637), London (1641-1680), Amsterdam (1656)
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q161336
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Title
Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696) Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696) Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Portrait by Sir Peter Lely of Henry Capel (1638–1696), Baron Capel of Tewkesbury, the younger brother of Mary and Elizabeth Capel, and Arthur Capel (1632–1693), first Earl of Essex. The picture may have been painted on the occasion of Henry Capel's marriage to Dorothy Bennett in 1659. They lived at Cassiobury House, Watford. The portrait was sold with other Cassiobury estate assets in 1922-3 and now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Depicted people Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1659 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 126.4 cm (49.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 102.9 cm (40.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+126.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+102.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
Credit line 1939: bequeathed by Jacob Ruppert
Inscriptions

Monogram center left:

PL

perhaps hard to see on column base
References
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436873

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