fishy friday

some of sir peter lely's wonder-wimmin, in no particular order ... and a finely drawn self-portrait of the man himself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_de_K%C3%A9rouaille,_Duchess_of_Portsmouth

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/louise-de-keroualle/

https://www.npg.org.uk/business/publications/painted-ladies.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Vere,_20th_Earl_of_Oxford

http://www.libson-yarker.com/news-and-events/news/2017-stock-catalogue-and-a-major-lely-discovery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Gwyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Talbot,_Countess_of_Shrewsbury

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_II_of_England

This eventually led to an affair with him.^[1] She was bewildered at having been chosen by James. "It cannot be my beauty for he must see I have none," she remarked incredulously. "And it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Sedley,_Countess_of_Dorchester

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/401212/margaret-brooke-lady-denham-ca-1647-67

"She is credited with introducing the British to tea-drinking, which was then widespread among the Portuguese nobility."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Braganza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Palmer,_1st_Duchess_of_Cleveland

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/404514/frances-stuart-duchess-of-richmond-1648-1702

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lely-two-ladies-of-the-lake-family-t00058

lady penelope spencer ( nee wriothesley ) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wriothesley-4

elizabeth murray ... https://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/conversing-with-aliens/

not convinced the above are the same lady

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_Countess_de_Gramont



























https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_Finch,_Countess_of_Nottingham

hardly likely to be barbara villiers because two other paintings of her by lely show a woman with dark hair and darker eyebrows

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lely-elizabeth-countess-of-kildare-t00070

http://hrhprincesspalace.blogspot.com/2015/03/todays-princess-mary-bagot.html

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/404959/frances-brooke-lady-whitmore-d-1690

theodosia capel died of the smallpox, aged twenty

the husband was not well-liked, particularly in new york ...
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/ehyde_3eofc.html

here she was with her sister, mary capel on the left ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerset,_Duchess_of_Beaufort_(1630%E2%80%931715)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hyde

Susan Armyne, Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby was born circa 1649.2 She was the daughter of Sir William Armyne, 2nd Bt. and Anne Crane.1,2 She married, firstly, Sir Henry Belasyse, son of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse of Worlaby and Jane Boteler, on 20 October 1662 at Kensington, London, EnglandG.4,5 She married, secondly, James Fortrey before 1684.2 She died on 6 March 1712/13, without issue.1 She was buried on 13 March 1712/13 at Twickenham, London, EnglandG.2 Her will was proven (by probate) on 11 March 1712/13.2
     From 20 October 1662, her married name became Belasyse.1 She was created Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby, co. Lincoln [England for life] on 1 April 1674, suo jure.2 From before 1684, her married name became Fortrey.2 Her last will was dated 8 September 1710. 
     Burnet wrote "the Duke [of York] was now [1673] looking for another wife. He made addresses to the Lady Bellasis, the widow of the Lord Bellasis' son. She was a zealous protestant though she married into a popish family. She was a woman of much life and vivacity, but of a very small proportion of beauty... The King sent for the Duke and told him it was too much that he had played the fool once: that was not to be done a second time and at such an age. The lady was also so threatened that she gave up the promise, but kept an attested copy of it as she herself told me."2























https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/401211/jane-needham-mrs-myddleton-1646-92

lady anne strode

Lucy Brydges (Lady Loftus, Later Viscountess Lisburne) was the daughter and co-heir of George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley and his wife Jane, daughter of John Savage, Earl Rivers. She married Adam Loftus, son of Sir Arthur Loftus of Rathfarnham, Dublin. In 1686 her husband was created Viscount Lisburne.

The sitter is portrayed three-quarter length, seated in a landscape, wearing a green dress and white chemise, a bird to the left.

Oil painting on canvas, Arabella Bankes, Mrs Gilly (b.1642), by Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), circa 1660/1665. A three-quarter length portrait, seated on the plinth of a fountain, landscape background right, wearing a blue-grey satin dress; she holds a glass jar, its lid on her lap. Arabella Bankes, Mrs Gilly (b.1642), sixth daughter of Sir John Bankes (1589-1644) and Mary Hawtrey (1598-1661). She married Samuel Gilly of High Hall, Wimborne (the house which was later owned by John Fitch, whose brother Sir Thomas Fitch had contracted in 1663 to build the brickwork at Kingston Lacy under the direction of Sir Roger Pratt).

lady christina gere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Newcastle-upon-Tyne#Early_years




not only but also there was a video   ... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7WI9YxOiio&feature=share

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lely

nice introduction via the courtauld institute ... https://courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PeterLelyTeachersResoucelo-res.pdf






oh ! ... and he once owned this ... https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/69746/aphrodite-or-crouching-venus