Tag: Barbara Villiers
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19 Portraits of Barbara Villiers; Duchess of Cleveland and mistress to Charles II
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, also known as Lady Castlemaine (27 November 1640–9 October 1709) was an English courtesan from the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of whom were acknowledged and subsequently…
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The Windsor Beauties are a famous collection of 11 paintings by Sir Peter Lely, painted in the early to mid-1660s.
Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July 1647–15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised,…
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The 11 Windsor Beauties by Sir Peter Lely, painted in the early to mid-1660s.
The ‘Windsor Beauties’ series, were a set of eleven portraits of celebrated women at the Restoration court. The series was commissioned, or assembled, by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, probably around 1662–5; painted by Peter Lely (1618–1680), depicting the most beautiful ladies of the court of King Charles II of England… Please follow link for…
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19 Portraits of Barbara Villiers; Duchess of Cleveland and mistress to King Charles II
Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618–30 November 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. Lely studied painting in Haarlem. He became a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in Haarlem in 1637. He arrived in London…
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