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Hace 3 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 c...
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Hace 1 día · One of the most remarkable aspects of Canons Ashby House is its extensive collection of art, antiques, and tapestries amassed by the Dryden family over centuries. The drawing room showcases an impressive array of 18th-century portraits, including works by renowned artists such as Sir Godfrey Kneller and Sir Peter Lely (National Trust, 2021).
Hace 10 horas · 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 1 día · 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 5 días · Moser, for example, was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy (RA); Cosway was a regular exhibitor at the RA and was held in high esteem on the continent; Beale accumulated aristocratic patrons in the late 17th century and was much admired by Sir Peter Lely; Read’s 1762 portrait of Lady Glenorchy was painted as the pair of Thomas Gainsborough’s depiction of Lord ...
Hace 4 días · 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 5 días · Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 7 December 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.
