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Peter Lely

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[1618 - 1680]
a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.
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Among his most famous paintings are a series of 10 portraits of ladies from the Royal court, known as the "Windsor Beauties", formerly at Windsor Castle but now at Hampton Court Palace; a similar series for Althorp; a series of 12 of the admirals and captains who fought in the Second Anglo-Dutch War, known as the "Flagmen of Lowestoft", now mostly owned by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich; and his Susannah and the Elders at Burghley House.
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portrait: By Peter Lely, Winsor Beauty: Henrietta Boyle (1665) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18075477

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I can see the great stone hall, the wide doors open to the library, the Peter Lelys and the Vandykes on the walls,

Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca (1938)
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