‘Second Lady’ in style of Lely takes first place in price terms
Top-seller when a collection of antiques from the estate of a descendant of one of Britain’s longest-serving chancellors of the exchequer went to auction in the Cotswolds was an oil painting “in the manner of 17th century royal portraitist Peter Lely”.
The group from the family seat of Sir Michael Hicks Beach (later ennobled as the first Earl St Aldwy…