A painting from the private collection of Viscount De L’Isle will be on loan in 2012 to Historic Royal Palaces for an exhibition at Hampton Court which is looking at Beauty in the 17th century.

Listed as a ‘Portrait of Nell Gwynne or Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland as Venus with a Putto in a Landscape after Peter Lely’, the painting is normally on display to Penshurst Place ticket holders in one of the state rooms.

The painting will be replaced by a painting from the private collection, not normally on display to the public – a lovely double portrait of Lady Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle and Lady Dorothy Percy Countess of Leicester, after Van Dyck.