Charles Stuart, Third Duke of Richmond and Sixth Duke of Lennox (1639–1672)

Artist Sir Peter Lely and Studio Dutch, 1618–1680, active in England circa 1643–1680

Datecirca 1661

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions86 9/16 x 52 1/2 in. (219.9 x 133.3 cm)
Frame: 93 3/4 x 57 3/4 x 3 in. (238.1 x 146.7 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Edward Shearson

Object numberG.55.6.1

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ProvenanceEarl of Darnley, Cobham Court, Kent; given to NCMA, 1955.Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 96, illus. (b-w).

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 3, illus. (b-w).

British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), no. 94, illus. (b-w).

The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1973), cat. no. 4, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 116.

David Wilcox, “A Suit of Silver: The Underdress of a Knight of the Garter in the Late Seventeenth Century,” in Costume 48, no. 1 (2014), 29, illus. (color) 28, fig. 4.
Exhibition HistoryDurham, NC, Duke University Art Museum, “Opening Exhibition,” October 18-December 15, 1969.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 16-December 30, 1973, cat. no. 4, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017. Object Rights Statement

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