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Hace 5 días · Early residents included Sir Peter Lely and the Civil War Royalist Sir Edward Verney, killed at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. In 1638, St Paul’s Church, designed by Jones on an Etruscan model and London’s first new church since before the Reformation, was consecrated.
Hace 3 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’.
Hace 2 días · At the age of 13, he took this to London to become an apprentice to the celebrated painter Peter Lely. Hooke also had "some instruction in drawing" from the limner Samuel Cowper [34] but "the smell of the Oil Colours did not agree with his Constitution, increasing his Head-ache to which he was ever too much subject", and he became a pupil at Westminster School , living with its master Richard ...
Hace 4 días · Ormrod defends his arguments with vigour, style and panache. Some readers may perhaps harken after the spirit of Cromwell’s instruction to Peter Lely: to be painted ‘warts and all’. Whether or not that is the case, however, this is a book which all readers will find vivid, informative and rewarding.
Hace 3 días · Sir Peter Lely. Sir Peter Lely, the celebrated painter, purchased a house at Kew, to which, during the latter part of his life, he frequently retired (fn. 8) : after his death, it escheated to the crown, but through the good offices of Lord Keeper North, was restored to his family (fn. 9) , some of whom were remaining there about ...
Hace 1 día · Three years ago, in my article “Picturing the Branfill Family” I wrote about an old photo album containing photos, taken in the 1920s or 1930s or earlier, of various portraits of Branfill family members, including several which hung in Upminster Hall, which was bought on EBay by one of my contacts.
Hace 1 día · 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’.
