SIR PETER LELY (BRITISH 1618-1680), ANNE DE LAUNE... Lot n° 42

SIR PETER LELY (BRITISH 1618-1680)ANNE DE LAUNE, NÉE SANDYS (B. 1634); ABRAHAM, DE LAUNE (1629 - 1709)Oil on canvas, a pairEach 55.5 x 43cm (21¾ x 16¾ in.) (2)Provenance:By descent in the sitters' family to Alvred Faunce de LauneAnon. sale, Christie's London, 20 November 1964, lot 35 (90 gns.)Private collection, UK Private collection, USAAbraham de Laune was the son of Gideon Delaune (1564/5-1659), the eminent Huguenot physician and theologian, and his wife Judith Chamberlain. The sitter's father was appointed apothecary for Anne of Denmark, James I's queen, sometime between 1606 and 1610. Gideon was also one of the foremost members of the Huguenot immigrant community in the capital, which gathered together in the autonomous French church in Threadneedle Street, London. Abraham married Anne Sandys, the daughter of Edwin Sandys of Northbourne Court, Kent. They lived at Sharstead Court, Newnham, Kent.