id: 121946 accession number: 1942.247 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.247 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:51.243000 Portrait of Mrs. Leneve, c. 1657. Peter Lely (British, 1618–1680). Oil on canvas; framed: 157.5 x 132.5 x 13 cm (62 x 52 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.); unframed: 126.7 x 101.3 cm (49 7/8 x 39 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Otto Miller 1942.247 title: Portrait of Mrs. Leneve title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1657 creation date earliest: 1652 creation date latest: 1662 current location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Gift of Mrs. Otto Miller copyright: --- culture: England, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - British before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Peter Lely (British, 1618–1680) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 157.5 x 132.5 x 13 cm (62 x 52 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed: 126.7 x 101.3 cm (49 7/8 x 39 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00 Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). title: Collecting Drawings in England opening date: 1987-11-03T05:00:00 Collecting Drawings in England. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1987-January 17, 1988). title: Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill opening date: 2009-10-15T00:00:00 Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (organizer) (October 15, 2009-January 2, 2010); Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (March 6-July 4, 2010). title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Alaska-Yukon Exposition. Seattle, WA (June 1,1909 - October 16, 1909).', 'opening_date': '1909-10-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE family of the sitter, by descent to Isabella Leneve date: footnotes: citations: Isabelle Leneve, by descent to her nephew, Peter Leneve date: footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Leneve, Norwich, sold to Horace Walpole date: ?-1759 footnotes: citations: Horace Walpole [1717-1797] Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, England, to Earl of Waldegrave date: 1759-1797 footnotes: *
Horace Walpole paid 30 guineas for two portraits of the Leneve family on September 3, 1759, according to document in Yale University's Lewis Walpole Library.
citations: The Earls Waldegrave, consigned to Strawberry Hill sale, April 25, 1842, no. 61) date: 1797-1842 footnotes: citations: (Robins sale, Strawberry Hill, May 18, 1842, sold to Dommes) date: 1842 footnotes: *
The portrait was sold as lot 61 on the 21st day of the Strawberry Hill sale, May 18, 1842 for £31.10 to Dommes.
citations: Dommes date: 1842-? footnotes: *
Dommes purchased the portrait
citations: Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, Bart., sold at Christie’s, London date: ?-1894 footnotes: citations: (Christie’s, London, June 16, 1894, no. 26, to Prideaux) date: 1894 footnotes: citations: Prideaux date: 1894-1909? footnotes: *
Prideaux purchased the portrait at the Christie's London sale on June 16, 1984 unframed for £39.18
citations: R. C. Vose and N. M. Vose, Boston, sold to Mrs. Otto Miller date: 1909-1915 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Otto Miller, Cleveland, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1915-1942 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 151659 Sketch of Interior Design, before 1918. August Frederick Biehle, Sr. (American, 1854–1918). Watercolor; image: 71.1 x 40.7 cm (28 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Biehle 1984.1057 relationship: --- CITATIONS Snodin, Michael, ed. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. p. 309, cat. 140. page number: url: Merchant Taylors' Company (London, England), and Frederick Morris Fry. A Historical Catalogue of the Pictures, Herse-Cloths & Tapestry at Merchant Taylors' Hall With a List of the Sculptures & Engravings. London, United Kingdom: Chapman and Hall, 1907. page number: Reproduced: p. 103 url: Francis, Henry S. "The Portrait of Sarah Earle by Sir Peter Lely." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXI, no. 10 (December, 1944): 177-180. page number: Reproduced: p. 175 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 17 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n25 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 470 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n86 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 127 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n151 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 127 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n151 A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole : youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex. London, United Kingdom: T. Kirgate, 1784. page number: Reproduced: p. 50 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 169 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n189 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 204; Mentioned: p. 205-206 url: Snodin, Michael, and Cynthia E. Roman. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. page number: Reproduced: p. 135, fig. 155; p. 309 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.247/1942.247_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.247/1942.247_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.247/1942.247_full.tif