Lot 293: Attributed to John Hayls (active c. 1645-1679 London)

Attributed to John Hayls (active c. 1645-1679 London)
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, three-quarter-length, in a brown satin coat and a red cloak holding a letter, seated in a landscape
oil on canvas
49 x 39 in. (124.5 x 99.1 cm.)

Cowdray Park Catalogue, London, 1919, p. 6, no. 22, as 'Sir Peter Lely' (in the Buck Hall).
C. Anson, A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of The Viscount Cowdray, London, 1971, p. 25, no. 71, as 'School of Lely' (in the Main Staircase).