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| Title | Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland | |
| Alternative Title | A Boy with a Dog; Portrait of Sir Thomas Kelligrew with his Pointer | |
| Collection | Holburne Museum of Art, Bath | |
| Artist | After Lely, Peter (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1618-1680, active in England) Attributed to studio of Lely, Peter (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1618-1680, active in England) Previously attributed to Sonmans, Wilhelm (Dutch painter, died 1708) |
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| Date Earliest | probably about 1653 | |
| Date Latest | probably about 1653 | |
| Description | This is a replica of Sir Peter Lely's portrait of Josceline Percy (1644-1670) which is at Petworth House, Sussex, the seat of the earls of Northumberland. The young Josceline Percy is depicted together with his adoring dog. Josceline was the only son of Algernon Percy, tenth earl of Northumberland, who founded the family's important picture collection and presumably commissioned the portrait of his young son from Lely, as well as further portraits several years later.Josceline became the eleventh earl on his father's death in 1668, but he died just two years later at only twenty-six years of age. | |
| Current Accession Number | A44 | |
| Subject | portrait (Percy, Josceline, eleventh Earl of Northumberland); animal (dog) | |
| Measurements | 75.6 x 62.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Miss Mary Anne Barbara Holburne 1882. | |
| Provenance | Sir Thomas William Holburne, by 1867-74; by descent to Mary Anne Barbara Holburne (1802-1882), 1874. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Art Treasures from West Country Collections, Plymouth City Art Gallery, 1954, cat. no. 22, as by Sir Peter Lely. | |
| Publications | Catalogue of the Pictures and Library, Engravings, Etchings and Miniatures Belonging to Sir Thomas William Holburne, Bart., Bath, 1867, cat. no. 183, p. 8, as Portrait of Sir Thomas Kelligrew with his Pointer by Dobson; Chaffers, W., Catalogue of the Holburne of Menstrie Art Museum Bath, London, 1887, cat. no. 1502, p. 74, as Portrait of Sir Thomas Kelligrew with his Pointer by Dobson; Moeckler, F., Holburne of Menstrie Art Museum, Bath, 1902, cat. no. 110, p. 4, as Portrait of Sir Thomas Kelligrew by Dobson; Catalogue, Pictures and Miniatures, I, 1927, cat. no. 71, p. 23, as A Boy with a Dog by Sonmans; The Holburne of Menstrie Museum, Catalogue, Pictures, I, Bath 1936, cat. no. 128, p. 44, as A Boy with a Dog by School of Lely, attributed to Sonmans; Art Treasures from West Country Collections, Plymouth, 1954, cat. no. 22, p. 11, as A Boy with a Dog by Sir Peter Lely. | |
| Notes | Feigned oval. Inscription on front of frame: '22'; modern labels on backboard; inscribed in chalk on backboard: 'BRISTOL'. H. A. Buttery rejected the attribution to Dobson, and attributed A44 to 'School of Lely', 1906; attributed by Mr Lionel Cust to Sonmans. |
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| Rights Owner | © The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath | |
| Author | Dr Susan Steer | |