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Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 30 November 1680) [1] [2] [3] 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.
The painting was first described by George Vertue, who attributed it to Peter Lely and stated that it was painted from a man who was said to look like Shakespeare. [7] It was owned by Thomas Wright of Covent Garden in 1725 when it was engraved by John Simon and attributed to Soest. It was probably painted in the late 1660s, after the ...
John Greenhill (c. 1644 – 19 May 1676) was an English portrait painter, a pupil of Peter Lely, who approached his teacher in artistic excellence, but whose life was cut short by a dissolute lifestyle.
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Object history: Provenance: Possibly King Charles II (1630-1685); Possibly King James II (1633-1701); Possibly taken from Whitehall by his son-in-law, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1647-1721), husband of Katherine Darnley, King James II's natural daughter by Catherine Sedley, and recorded at Buckingham House, Middlesex, by G. Vertue in an inventory of 1746;
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1680, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .
The paintings were commissioned from Lely by James, Duke of York, brother of King Charles II, in late 1665. [1] James had commanded the English fleet against the Dutch at the Battle of Lowestoft on 13 June 1665, and the portraits were intended to commemorate those who had served under him as junior flag officers and captains of some of the ships. [2]