| Description | Includes:
-'Collector's questions: portrait of a Stuart?'. Country Life, 7 December 1951, p1890 -letter from R.B.Beckett, concerning his research on Lely, in particular portraits of Catherine of Braganza (12pp)
Also includes a photocopy (negative & in reverse) of the catalogue for a sale held in 1682 entitled 'A list of Sir Peter Lely's Great Collection of Pictures and other rarites, statues & bronzes etc.
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