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Isaac Oliver
(c. 1565 – 1617) Lady Dorothy Percy, Countess of Leicester, Née Percy (c. 1598-1659), wearing elaborate embroidered dressc. 1615
Watercolour on vellum laid onto a playing card (two of clubs) in Silver frame with rope-twist border and fleur-de-lys finials
Oval, 2 in (52 mm) high
Provenance
Probably Penshurst Place; Probably Leicester House (likely the miniature listed in the 1737 inventory made after the death of Probably John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester);
Probably Jocelyn Sidney, 7th Earl of Leicester; Probably William Perry (who married Elizabeth Sidney, niece of John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester (1680–1737);
Probably by descent until;
Private Collection, Germany; Bonhams, New Bond Street ‘The Albion collection of Fine Portrait Miniatures’, 22 April 2004, lot 4;
Private Collection.