17th Century Anglo-dutch School Portrait Of Two Young Boys With A Parrot

17th century Anglo-Dutch School, Circle or workshop of Peter Lely (1618-1680)

Portrait of Two Young Boys with a Parrot

Needs further research.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Provenance: : From the private art collection of a Northern English art collection and from a very fine large country Yorkshire Estate.

Wellington Fine Art Dealers Glasgow.

Overall size with the frame is 155 cm x 130 cm x 10 cm and the painting measuring 127 cm x 102 cm

A beautifully composed, very large and highly decorative, museum quality, mid to late 17th-century oil on canvas Anglo-Dutch depiction of two young boys with their pet parrot.

Condition report and further description:

The painting offered is of the highest quality workmanship and has been historically restored, most likely circa 1850-1900 and lined again in this period, with new stretcher bars having likely been used. The restoration has subsequently been followed with a more recent cleaning . Under UV, an extremely well-blended overpainting of the left sitter's tunic to cover his upper torso was evidently carried out in the 19th century, a typical procedure during the Victorian era with restoration as it was seen as more appropriate. It is a small area and totally invisible to the eye and only visible with UV light.

The painting surface is very stable with minimal visible craquelure to the naked eye, and the canvas is in good tension . The tonality is very good with vibrant colour strength. The later 18th-19th century restored gilt frame was added probably mid -century circa 1950's at the time of its later conservation. A cleaning was most likely carried out by Wellington Fine Art dealers and restorers is in excellent condition. There is a label to the frame verso indicating they supplied the frame.

Plesse refer to the notes below regarding frames.

There is an original hand-painted inscription to W Nesbitt of Leven, but we have not been able to establish any connection to any painter from this inscription. The painting needs further research to attribute the painting to an artist from this period, but the work is very close to that of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) so  we think it may well be from the artist's workshop.

The 17th century artist and art collector Sir Peter Lely (originally Pieter van der Faes) was born in Soest, Westphalia, Germany. His father, Johan van der Faes, was stationed as an infantry Captain in the Dutch army and his mother, Abigail van Vliet, was from a wealthy family based in Utrecht.

Lely's career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. He became a naturalised British subject and was knighted in 1679.

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