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    Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 7 December 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant...
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  • Lely can refer to: Cornelis Lely, Dutch engineer and statesman Peter Lely, Dutch portrait painter of the 17th century Jan Anthony Lely, inventor of the...
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    pension. She was one of the Windsor Beauties painted by Sir Peter Lely. Her portrait by Lely was erroneously named "Elizabeth, Countess of Falmouth" and...
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    British courtier. She was one of the Windsor Beauties, painted by Sir Peter Lely. She was a daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton (1607-1667)...
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    led to Lely loaning Beale and her family some of his old master paintings for them to copy from. The Beale's commissioned many portraits from Lely of themselves...
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    Anglo-Irish noblewoman. She was one of the Windsor Beauties painted by Sir Peter Lely. She was born in Wiltshire, England, to Sir Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of...
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    Charles II of England and was one of the "Windsor Beauties" painted by Sir Peter Lely. She was a mistress of the future King James II of England. Margaret ("Elizabeth"...
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    was the subject of many portraits, in particular by court painter Sir Peter Lely. Barbara's first cousin, Elizabeth Villiers (later 1st Countess of Orkney...
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    possession of the painter and connoisseur Sir Peter Lely, from whom it derives its name. Two years after Lely's death (1682), it was re-acquired from his...
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    Commonwealth, when it was purchased by the painter and connoisseur Sir Peter Lely. It passed once again into the Royal Collection in 1682 and is on loan...
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    was also short-lived. Her family had a portrait painted of her by Sir Peter Lely. In 1678 when Isabel was two years old, the Popish Plot led to her parents'...
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    Greenhill (c. 1644 – 19 May 1676) was an English portrait painter, a pupil of Peter Lely, who approached his teacher in artistic excellence, but whose life was...
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    Windsor Beauties (category Paintings by Peter Lely)
    are a set of portrait paintings, still in the Royal Collection, by Sir Peter Lely and his workshop, produced in the early to mid-1660s, that depict ladies...
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    female Britannia. She is one of the Windsor Beauties painted by Sir Peter Lely. Frances was the daughter of Walter Stewart, a physician in Queen Henrietta...
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    Foundation, the Prince Pierre Foundation, and UNICEF. Caroline is the Patron of Peter Le Marchant Trust, an organization that operates canal boat trips for ill...
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    of Essex. Elizabeth was the subject of a portrait by court painter Sir Peter Lely. Lady Elizabeth was born on 1 December 1636 at Petworth Manor, Sussex...
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    beautiful." As a child, Charlotte was painted by the court painter Sir Peter Lely, Charles II's Principal Painter in Ordinary, in which she is seated with...
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    and, after a short siege, Soest was incorporated into it. The painter Peter Lely, later to win fame in England, was born in 1618 in Soest to Dutch parents...
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    Beauties" that had been painted by Kneller's predecessor as court painter, Peter Lely. Kneller was born Gottfried Kniller in the Free City of Lübeck, the son...
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    Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale (category Burials at St Peter's, Petersham)
    life by a range of artists including Peter Lely, John Weesop, Joan Carlile and Benedetto Gennari. Her patronage of Lely extended over decades, with four paintings...
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    lady, she was the subject of many portraits by the preeminent artist Sir Peter Lely. In October 1673 Moll Davis bought a new house in St James's Square, paying...
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    and immunity from arrest for debt, and was painted four times by Sir Peter Lely, the foremost court artist of the day. Despite being encouraged to do...
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    father, trained in the law at Gray's Inn and became close friends with Peter Lely, the painter, and Roger Pratt, the gentleman architect. In 1661 he married...
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    and again went to England, where he was befriended and employed by Sir Peter Lely for four years at Windsor, Berkshire. While there, Largillière also worked...
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    Northern Netherlands. Deuren was born in Rotterdam and became a pupil of Peter Lely, Frans van Mieris the Elder and Caspar Netscher. He is known for genre...
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    these in 1992, featuring the work of William Dobson, Anthony van Dyck and Peter Lely. Cool (aesthetic) Hypermasculinity Manspreading Military parade Power...
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    particularly by John Faber the Younger. Peter engraved a portrait of Ellen "Nell" Gwynne by Sir Peter Lely. He was the son of Richard van Bleeck, also...
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    as "la belle Hamilton", she was one of the Windsor Beauties painted by Peter Lely. She appears prominently in the Mémoires du comte de Grammont, written...
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    Retrieved 2023-05-23. "George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison C.1675, By Sir Peter Lely. | 756930 | www.royprecious.co.uk". www.royprecious.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-23...
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    September 11 – Francesco Grue, Italian artist (d. 1673) September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch painter (d. 1680) September 27 – Jacob Alting, Dutch linguist (d...
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