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16 de may. de 2024 · Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 7 December 1680) [1] [2] 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.
Hace 6 días · Peter Lely is best known as being the court painter of Charles II, but today we are going to look at one of his lesser-known works. This painting was likely completed around 1674 - 77 and it ...
Hace 3 días · Ukraine’s Kherson Art Museum claimed 100 artworks were looted by Russian forces, citing a “propaganda video” filmed in a Crimean museum. This startling revelation allegedly represents only less than one percent of the cultural treasures plundered from Ukrainian institutions. Another 15,000 objects were reported missing amid extensive ...
Hace 2 días · And it’s her contradictions that give her story life – her slippery, brilliant difficulty – alongside her connection to a whole blazing world of women’s words. Her epitaph in Westminster Abbey still speaks for her: she was a ‘wise wittie & learned Lady, which her many Bookes do well testifie’.
15 de may. de 2024 · Portrait of Nell Gwyn as Venus with her son, Charles Beauclerk, as Cupid, by Peter Lely. Charles II had this hung behind a landscape, which he swung back to allow favoured guests to peer at. Having previously been the mistress of Charles Hart and Charles Sackville, Gwyn jokingly called the King "her Charles the Third".
23 de may. de 2024 · The Public Face of Early Modern England Artfully Revealed | Reviews in History. Book: Portraits, Painters, and Publics in Provincial England, 1540-1640. Robert Tittler. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780199585601; 216pp.; Price: £63.00. Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales.
Hace 18 horas · Chapter 3 jumps to ‘Henry. London 1665’ and introduces ‘Henry Greenhill. Aged twenty-six’ and ‘the principal assistant at the Covent Garden studio of court artist Peter Lely’. Henry is an exceptionally skilled artist and Lely trusts him ‘to complete the portraits commissioned by the king and by courtiers and nobles’.
