Strawberry Hill ID: sh-000465
1627
Oliver, Peter (English miniaturist, 1589-1647)
Miniature
Watercolour on vellum, set in an early 20th century pearwood frame
7 cm [height]
Signed in gold on recto: P. Oliver F 1627
National Portrait Gallery, London. Transferred from National Gallery (Alan Evans Bequest), 1994. 6274
Strawberry Hill History
Location: Breakfast Room [Blue Breakfast Room]
1774 Description: Sir Kenelm Digby, when young; by Peter Oliver: very fine. (23)
1784 Description: Text same as 1774 Description (18)
Sale Text: Sir Kenelm Digby, when young, in a black slashed dress
Object History
Provenance: Watkin Williams; bt Horace Walpole, 1771 (nine framed Digby miniatures, £300) or 1775; 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 11, lot 29, bt Miss Burdett Coutts, £25.4.0; Baroness Burdett-Coutts; 1974, Alan Evans Bequest, to National Gallery; 1994, Transferred to National Portrait Gallery, London.
Exhibition History: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," Yale Center for British Art, 15 October 2009 - 3 January 2010; Victoria and Albert Museum, 5 March 2010 - 4 July 2010, cat. no. 214.
Bibliography: HW Corres 1:358n 2:43n, 28:180, 32:165
A. Sumner, ed., Death, Passion and Politics: Van Dyck’s Portraits of Venetia Stanley and George Digby (London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1995), 100, no.26, fig.1.
