. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . o ?J -s w 2 >. « o u I SIR PETER LELY (1618-1680) was the son of a Dutch soldier called Van der Faes, and appears tohave studied painting at Haarlem when Franz Hals was at theheight of his fame. He came to England in the train of PrinceWilliam of Orange in 1641, in a fortunate hour for himself, for Van-dyck died within that year, and Lely, whose assumed name seems tohave been taken from the sign of a lily over his fathers home inHolland, painted portraits of Prince William and his bride Mary,eldest daughter of Charles I, which at
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . o ?J -s w 2 >. « o u I SIR PETER LELY (1618-1680) was the son of a Dutch soldier called Van der Faes, and appears tohave studied painting at Haarlem when Franz Hals was at theheight of his fame. He came to England in the train of PrinceWilliam of Orange in 1641, in a fortunate hour for himself, for Van-dyck died within that year, and Lely, whose assumed name seems tohave been taken from the sign of a lily over his fathers home inHolland, painted portraits of Prince William and his bride Mary,eldest daughter of Charles I, which at once made his name. In 1647he painted King Charles in his captivity at Hampton Court, and hepainted Cromwell at least once. A painter is, rightly, of no party inthe State, but it was natural that the Restored Monarchy shouldgive commissions more freely than the Protectorate, and, after 1660,Lely, in receipt of a permission from King Charles H, was con-tinually busy in painting the beauties of the Court—so bus} indeedthat many found it exceedingly diff
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