Sir Peter Lely

(1618-1680)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680 NRA: Lely Sir Peter (1618-1680) portrait painter DNB: Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680), portrait painter and art collector LBT ID: PeLely1680 VIAF ID: 47033545 LOC ID: n85028378	B/BAP: 1618-09-14 DIED: 1680-11-30
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Dutch portrait painter who settled in London about 1643 where he painted members of the court.
REFERENCES TO Sir Peter Lely: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “On the Cockney School of Poetry. No. V” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (April 1819) 97-100 Found 1: ¶ 8 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 21 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XIV. 1816 Found 1: ¶ 35 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter XXII Found 1: ¶ 30 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 22