5 days ago · The Windsor Beauties (A Collection by Sir Peter Lely) King Charles II, by John Michael Wright, 1671-6. Source: The Royal Collection Trust ... Peter Lely’s women are noted for their subtle coloring, skillful rendering of silk, and the air of sensuous languor with which they invest their subjects. He gave his subjects a sleepy-eyed sort of air ...

Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 30 November 1680) [1][2][3] was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. He became a naturalised British subject and was knighted in 1679.

The Windsor Beauties 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 of the court of King Charles II, some of whom were his mistresses.

Aug 6, 2019 · The gallery of so-called ‘Windsor Beauties’ is the name given to the collection of portraits painted by Sir Peter Lely (1618-80) of celebrated courtesans and women of the nobility in ...

Title: Study for a Portrait of a Woman. Artist: Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes) (British, Soest 1618–1680 London) Date: 1670s. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 26 1/2 x 21 1/8 in. (67.3 x 53.7 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906. Object Number: 06.1198

Peter Lely: Portrait of a young woman (either Barbara Villiers or Nell Gwyn) and child, as Venus and Cupid ; Artist

A woman who wielded significant influence in the first decade of the king's reign, 'as one of the most flagrantly sensual women at the court it was appropriate that she should have become the archetype, for Lely as well as in the eyes of posterity, of the Restoration Beauty' (Sir Oliver Millar, catalogue of the exhibition, Sir Peter Lely, 1978 ...

Following the Duke's death, his title was inherited by his young son who died in Italy a few years later. The portrait was probably still at Buckingham House in 1746, as 'a naked Lady and son, Lely' is recorded in an inventory of that year.

Mar 29, 2009 · Unknown woman, formerly known as Nell Gwyn (studio of Peter Lely - NPG 3976) Female portraits by Peter Lely 17th-century portrait paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of a Lady, by Peter Lely As well as being an avid collector of Italian, Dutch and Flemish works, Lely was the leading portrait painter in England in the latter half of the seventeenth century, the successor to Van Dyck.