Tag: Margaret Brooke
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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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