Peter lely, leading painter of Stuart era

Express & Echo (Exeter UK) | June 5, 2007 | Copyright

Peter Lely was a portrait painter who became Principal Painter to King Charles II.

Born of Dutch parents, he trained in Haarlem and came to London in the 1640s, where he quickly established a reputation as a portraitist.

His early English paintings were influenced by Van Dyck and Dutch baroque style and were mainly mythological scenes and portraits set in landscapes, often pastoral in mood, for which he became famous. He quickly established himself as a portraitist to King Charles I, but by swiftly changing his patrons, his reputation and fortune grew steadily and, after the execution of the ...

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