Sunday 10 July 1664
(Lord’s day). Up and by water, towards noon, to Somersett House, and walked to my Lord Sandwich’s, and there dined with my Lady and the children….
Here my Lady showed us my Lady Castlemayne’s picture, finely done; given my Lord; and a most beautiful picture it is.*
Thence with my Lady Jemimah and Mr. Sidney to St. Gyles’s Church, and there heard a long, poore sermon. Thence set them down and in their coach to Kate Joyce’s christening, where much company, good service of sweetmeates; and after an houre’s stay, left them, and in my Lord’s coach — his noble, rich coach — home, and there my wife fell to putting things in order against her going to-morrow, and I to read, and so to bed.
*It was a studio copy/version after Sir Peter Lely, not the prime signed original. Probably very similar to the one shown below. The Christie's example is explicitly catalogued as Lely and Studio (Lely did the head/hands; assistants did much of the rest).
“Portrait of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and later Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), full-length, seated in a silver dress and blue drapery, a landscape beyond.”
Estimate GBP 120,000 – GBP 180,000
Price realized GBP 567,000 in 2024 (Christie’s)
& Book illustration from Pepys Diary at British National Museum
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