LELY, SIR PETER

lēˈlē, 1618–80, Dutch portrait painter in England. His original name was Pieter van der Faes. He studied in Haarlem but worked in England from c.1643. After the death of Van Dyck he became court painter in 1661. Lely painted in turn the great figures of the court of Charles I, the Protectorate, and the Restoration. His portraits are colorful, elegant, and flattering. Examples of his work are to be seen in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and at Hampton Court. The Metropolitan Museum has several of his portraits, including those of Sir Henry Capel and Barbara Villiers.

See study by R. B. Beckett (1951).

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books on: Lely Sir Peter  - 250 results

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Sir Christopher Wren, A.D. 1632-1723
Book by Rudolf Dircks; Hodder and Stoughton, 1923
Subjects: Architecture--England--London, St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England), Wren, Christopher--Sir--1632-1723
...Valentine, 166 , 174 Lambeth Palace, 118 La Quintinye, 201 Laud, Archbishop, 12 , 229 Le Brun, 201 , 202 , 203 Lely, Sir Peter, 181 Le Mercier, 203 , 222 , 226 Le Muet, 199 , 204 , 205 Lenotre, 5 , 201 , 203 Le Pautre, 99 , 200 , 201...
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The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane, Governor of Massachusetts Bay
Book by James K. Hosmer; Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1888
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714, Vane, Henry--Sir--1612?-1662
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. SIR HENRY VANE. After Houbrakens engraving of the portrait by Sir Peter Lely Frontispiece. FACSIMILE OF LETTER TO JOHN WINTHROP 81 PLAN OF BATTLE OF MARSTON MOOR 219 PLAN OF BATTLE OF NASEBY 246 THE GREAT SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH 368
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Rubens, Paintings and Drawings
Book by R. A. M. Stevenson, Peter Paul Ruben; Oxford University Press, 1939
Subjects: Rubens, Peter Paul--Sir--1577-1640--Catalogs
...may be seen in Rubenss portraits; the first less decidedly pronounced than in some pictures by Titian, Veronese, Bronzino, Lely, and many more recent painters in love with decorative style or an ideal exposition of type; the second mood, on the other...
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Sir Godfrey Kneller and His Times, 1646-1723: Being a Review of English Portraiture of the Period
Book by Lord Killanin; Batsford, 1948
Subjects: Portrait Painting--Great Britain
...Bernard, App. D 2 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 39 , App. C Lawson, Mrs., 40 , 101 Leake, Sir John, 107 Leconfield, Lord, collection...Duke of. See Schomberg, Duke of Lely, Sir Peter, 17 , 18 , 26 , 31 -36, 38 -45...
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The Lives of the British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers
Book by E. Beresford Chancellor; Duckworth, 1909
Subjects: Architects--Great Britain
...Kelston Park, 250 Kemp, Peter, 35 Kendal, Duchess of...Kirtlington, 304 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 187 Kneller Hall...26 Le Scot, 40 Lee, Sir Richard, 25 Leech, 288...Leicester, Earl of, 228 -9 Lely, Sir Peter, 104 , 171 Leoni...
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journal articles on: Lely Sir Peter  - 15 results

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Representations of Blacks and Blackness in the Renaissance
Journal article by Peter Erickson; Criticism, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Art, Renaissance--Social aspects, Blacks--Portrayals, depictions, etc., European drama--Renaissance, 1450-1600
...blacks and blackness in the Renaissance. by Peter Erickson In Playing in the Dark, Toni...The first, epitomized by the work of Peter Mark, stresses that blacks in the Renaissance...in the new world as the dividing line, Peter Mark draws a basic distinction between...
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Seeing into "The Life of Things": Nature and Commodification in Phantom Fortune
Journal article by Patricia Marks; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 33, 2001
Subjects: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Materialism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Nature--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Phantom Fortune (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political reform--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Social problems--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...grandmother, whose portrait by Sir Peter Lely hangs in Maulevrier Castle, the...achieved renown in portraiture. Sir Peter Lely, a Dutch portrait painter active...Harlow, George Henry"; "Lely, Sir Peter"; "Reynolds, Sir Joshua...
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The Politics of Portraiture: Oliver Cromwell and the Plain Style
Journal article by Laura Lunger Knoppers; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Art--17th century, Portrait painting--Political aspects, United Kingdom--History, 1642-1649 (Civil War)
...continued in a new portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-80). Lely...Courts: Essays in Honour of Sir Oliver Millar, ed. David...Pittsburgh, 1980. Millar, Sir Oliver. "Some Painters...1972. -----. Sir Peter Lely 1618-80. London, 1978...
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Re-dressing Classical Statuary: the Eighteenth-century "hand-in-waistcoat" Portrait
Journal article by Arline Meyer; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art criticism
...Gainsborough (Fig. 8); and Sir Hugh Molesworth, ca...evident in the 1660s, when Peter Lely, court painter to Charles...declamatory style.(44) Lely typically chose the cropped...1785. 87. O. Millar, Sir Peter Lely, 1618-1680, London...
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Painted Ladies at Yale
Journal article by Alexander Burnham; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 79, 2003
Subjects: Art exhibits, Charles II, King of England (1630-85), Kings, Sexual behavior, Wives
...raise their principal portraitist, Sir Peter Lely, whose luscious renderings continue...The women painted so brilliantly by Lely and other Restoration artists were...undress, but an engraving after Lely became very popular. It depicts...
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Painted Ladies
Magazine article by Charles Saumarez Smith; History Today, Vol. 51, October 2001
Subjects: Art--Exhibitions, Charles II, King of England--Conduct of life, Lely, Peter--Exhibitions
...Pelican History of Art and Sir Oliver Millars English Art...embarked on a PhD thesis on Sir Peter Lely at the Courtauld Institute...exhibition is Sir Peter Lely (1618-80), who has...Germany of Dutch parents, Lely arrived in London in the...
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Portrait of an Age: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Court Artist to Charles I, Is the Subject of a New Exhibition at Tate Britain. Kevin Sharpe, Consultant to the Project, Argues That the Visual Arts Can Be as Valuable as the Written Word to Historians Seeking a Better Understanding of the Nature of Politics and Power
Magazine article by Kevin Sharpe; History Today, Vol. 59, March 2009
Subjects: Artists--Works, Van Dyck, Anthony--Works
Portrait of an Age: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Court Artist to Charles I, Is the Subject of a...almost competed to emulate his style most closely. William Dobson, Peter Lely, Robert Walker and Samuel Cooper all followed their predecessors...
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Rembrandt's Women and Painted Ladies
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 280, February 2002
Subjects: Painters, Dutch--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Dutch--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Portraits--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...painted mostly by the Dutch immigrant Sir Peter Lely, admittedly had the advantage of...fusty studio properties. Although Lely was a versatile and mercurial painter...king first cast his eye on her, Lely painted her as Diana, another goddess...
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The Good Book
Magazine article by Jonathan Aitken; The American Spectator, Vol. 38, September 2005
Subjects: Books, Christianity, Marketing, Retailing
...warts and all" was first coined by Oliver Cromwell as he sat for the 17th-century portrait artist, Sir Peter Lely: "Paint me as I am, Master Lely, roughnesses, blemishes, warts, strengths and all that you see in me, otherwise I will never...
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Old Masters from the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Magazine article by Desmond Shawe-Taylor; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 128, November 1999
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Dulwich Picture Gallery--Collections and collecting
...stipulation that the noted architect Sir John Soane design the building...as eight works by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, are featured in the...Her Death-bed," portraits by Sir Peter Lely, and two paintings by William Hogarth...
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Bard's Red Herring; Who's This Man? Detail from the Chesterfield Portrait of Shakespeare
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 17, 2007
Subjects: Shakespeare, William
...suggestionit was owned by playwright and theatre manager Sir William Davenant (born1606), who claimed to...the artist is unknown, though Pieter Borseler,Sir Peter Lely, Federigo Zuccaro and Sir Godfrey Kneller have all beensuggested. In this...
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Bard's Red Herring ; Who's This Man? the Chesterfield Portrait of William Shakespeare
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 17, 2007
...suggestion it was owned byplaywright and theatre manager Sir William Davenant (born 1606), who claimed tobe...theartistisunknown,though Pieter Borseler, Sir Peter Lely, Federigo Zuccaro and Sir GodfreyKneller have all been suggested. In this...
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Yours for [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; February 4, 2009
...portrait that the Lord Protector commissioned from Sir Peter Lely. Cromwells blunt instructions to Sir Peter, who usually said: It is clearly a very...Painting in England that Cromwells words were: Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint...
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An Inspiration for Britannia
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 2, 2008
...famous portrait of her painted by Sir Peter Lely. The portrait both marked her position...Palace, during which time Sir Peter Lely painted a famous series known as...Frances Theresa Stewart, by Sir Peter Lely; The Britannia design on the 50p...
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Culture Visual Arts: From Westphalia to Welsh Mountains; Terry Grimley on the Return of Globetrotting Watercolours from Birmingham's Collection
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 25, 2008
...Sweden hosted the exhibition From Lely to Turner, drawn from the citys...and rare) landscape drawing by Sir Peter Lely, dating from around the time he...disintegrate if you breathed on it. Lely is one of a number of foreign artists...
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encyclopedia articles on: Lely Sir Peter  - 3 results

 
 
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Lely, Sir Peter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LELY, SIR PETER le le, 1618 80, Dutch portrait painter...Van Dyck he became court painter in 1661. Lely painted in turn the great figures of the...several of his portraits, including those of Sir Henry Capel and Barbara Villiers. See study...
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Faes, Pieter Van Der
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FAES, PIETER VAN DER see Lely, Sir Peter . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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English Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...compete with the Dutch Lely or the German Kneller...Hilliard and Isaac and Peter Oliver, an English art...Renaissance architecture, Sir Christopher Wren, drawing...Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh, whose...outstanding artists. Sir Joshua Reynolds, who...


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