id: 121946
accession number: 1942.247
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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
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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
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culture: England, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - British before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Peter Lely (British, 1618–1680) - artist
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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.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Alaska-Yukon Exposition. Seattle, WA (June 1,1909 - October 16, 1909).', 'opening_date': '1909-10-16T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
family of the sitter, by descent to Isabella Leneve
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Isabelle Leneve, by descent to her nephew, Peter Leneve
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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Leneve, Norwich, sold to Horace Walpole
date: ?-1759
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Horace Walpole [1717-1797] Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, England, to Earl of Waldegrave
date: 1759-1797
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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.
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The Earls Waldegrave, consigned to Strawberry Hill sale, April 25, 1842, no. 61)
date: 1797-1842
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(Robins sale, Strawberry Hill, May 18, 1842, sold to Dommes)
date: 1842
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* The portrait was sold as lot 61 on the 21st day of the Strawberry Hill sale, May 18, 1842 for £31.10 to Dommes.
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Dommes
date: 1842-?
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* Dommes purchased the portrait
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Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, Bart., sold at Christie’s, London
date: ?-1894
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(Christie’s, London, June 16, 1894, no. 26, to Prideaux)
date: 1894
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Prideaux
date: 1894-1909?
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* Prideaux purchased the portrait at the Christie's London sale on June 16, 1984 unframed for £39.18
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R. C. Vose and N. M. Vose, Boston, sold to Mrs. Otto Miller
date: 1909-1915
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Mrs. Otto Miller, Cleveland, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1915-1942
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1942-
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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
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CITATIONS
Snodin, Michael, ed. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. p. 309, cat. 140.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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IMAGES
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