Sir Peter Lely

Commissioned by the sitter and thence by descent to his daughter, Lady Mary Stanhope (1674–1704), who married the Rt Hon. Thomas Coke (1674–1727), of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, in 1698; 

Thomas Coke married, secondly, Elizabeth Hales (d. 1722), a Maid of Honour to Queen Anne;

By descent to their son, George Lewis Coke (1715–1751);

By inheritance to his sister, Charlotte, wife of Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Bt (1705–1768); 

By descent to their son, Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1745–1828);

By descent to his son, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister of Great Britain;

By inheritance to his brother, Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne (1782–1853);

By inheritance to their sister, Emily Lamb, wife of Peter Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper (1778–1837), later Viscountess Palmerston;

By inheritance to their son, George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper (1806–1856);

By inheritance to his youngest daughter, Lady Amabel Cowper (1846–1906), who married, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Walter Kerr (1839–1927);

By descent to their son, Captain Andrew William Kerr (1877–1929), who married Marie Constance Kerr (1889–1929);

By descent to their son, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian (1922–2004);

Thence by descent to the present owner.

Pictures at Melbourne Hall, Melbourne Ms., 1841, no. 9, unpaginated (as hanging in the Dining Room);

History of Melbourne, typescript Melbourne Ms., 1852, p. 188 (listed as hanging in the Dining Room); 

Inventory of Household Furniture & Effects at Melbourne Hall, March 25th 1858, Melbourne Ms., 1858, unpaginated (listed as hanging in the Dining Room);

C.H. Collins Baker, Lely & the Stuart Portrait Painters, 2 vols, London 1912, vol. II, p. 128, no. 143; 

R.B. Beckett, Lely, London 1951, p. 39, no. 92;

O. Millar, Sir Peter Lely, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery, London, 1978, p. 55 (discussed under the pendant portrait of his wife, no. 34).