#Peter Lely

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Nymphs by a Fountain by Peter Lely (1655)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Peter Lely (1618-1680) "A Boy as a Shepherd" (c. 1658-1660) Oil on canvas Located in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England

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Peter Lely

[history-of-fashion]

1690s or ab. 1670 British (English) School or attr. to Peter Lely - Portrait of a Man (thought to be Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans)

(St Albans Museum + Gallery)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Sir Peter Lely (Dutch/active in England, 1618-1680) Portrait of a Lady in Blue holding a Flower, ca.1660 Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

This painting hung for almost 300 years at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, the estate of the aristocratic Townshend family.

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Peter Lely, The Carnarvon Family: Group portrait of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1632-1709), his wife Elizabeth, née the Hon. Elizabeth Capel (1633-1678), and their children Charles, Viscount Ascott (1652-before 1673) and Elizabeth, later Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (1653-1677) (detail), 17th century. Oil on canvas, 156.2 x 217.8 cm. Private Collection.

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Portrait of Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, Peter Lely, circa 1671-4

Oil on canvas 125.1 x 101.6 cm (49 ¼ x 40 in.) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Portrait of a Lady, Sir Peter Lely, 1665

[dreamconsumer]

James II when Duke of York. By Sir Peter Lely.

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Elizabeth, comtesse de Gramont (née Hamilton; 1641–1708), was an Irish-born courtier, first after the Restoration at the court of Charles II of England in Whitehall and later, after her marriage to Philibert de Gramont, at the court of Louis XIV where she was a lady-in-waiting to the French queen, Maria Theresa of Spain.

Known 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 by her brother Anthony.

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Peter Lely (1618-1680) - Self-Portrait - black and coloured chalks heightened with white 

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (6/1/23) Sir Peter Lely (Dutch/British, 1618–1680) Susanna and the Elders (c. 1650-55) Oil on canvas, 127 x 149.2 cm. The Tate Gallery, London

The subject comes from the biblical Apocrypha. Susanna, a young Jewish wife, was secretly desired by two elders of the community, who plotted together to seduce her. They hid in her garden and when she came out to bathe they emerged and threatened that, unless she gave in to their desires, they would publicly accuse her of adultery -- the penalty for which was death. Susanna, however, spurned them and they duly made their false accusation. She was charged and condemned to die, but at the last minute the youthful Daniel - the future prophet -- cross-examined the elders and established Susanna's innocence. Lely here shows Susanna in her garden, still clothed. To the left is the stone bowl of a fountain topped with a classically inspired sculpture of a naked, weeping boy reclining on a camel, whose curved neck is seen in profile. The two elders, to the right, lean suggestively towards her.

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Peter Lely (1618-1680) "Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford" (c. 1665) Oil on canvas Located in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Lely depicted Kirke with deliberate irony, casting her as Venus with a rose and bare breast, rather than as her namesake, the chaste goddess Diana.

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Peter Lely

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1660 Sir Peter Lely - Portrait of a Lady in Blue holding a Flower

(Dulwich Picture Gallery)

[rubenista]

Peter Lely, The Carnarvon Family: Group portrait of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1632-1709), his wife Elizabeth, née the Hon. Elizabeth Capel (1633-1678), and their children Charles, Viscount Ascott (1652-before 1673) and Elizabeth, later Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (1653-1677) (detail), 17th century. Oil on canvas, 156.2 x 217.8 cm. Private Collection.