Nell Gwyn, Restoration actress, lover of the Earl of Rochester, long-time mistress of King Charles II of England, 1650-1687. Depicted in loose chemise with her hand on the head of a lamb. Steel engraving by Thomas Wright after a portrait by Sir Peter Lely from Mrs Anna Jameson’s Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second, Henry Coburn, London, 1838. T. Wright was a member elect of the Imperial Academy of Arts or St. Petersburg and of Florence.

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