Portrait of Philip Stanhope, 2-nd Earl of Chesterfield (by Peter Lely)

Portrait of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634–1714)

oil on canvas

127 x 103.5 cm.; 50 x 40 ¾ in.

Provenance 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);