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The Windsor Beauties are a set of portrait paintings, still in the Royal Collection, by Sir Peter Lely and his workshop, produced in the early to mid-1660s, that depict ladies of the court of King Charles II, some of whom were his mistresses. [1] [2] The name stems from the original location of the collection, which was at Windsor Castle.
Sir Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback, 1701; Hampton Court Beauties, 1690s. Sir Peter Lely – Windsor Beauties, 1660s. William Scrots – Edward VI, c. 1550; Girolamo da Treviso – The Four Evangelists Stoning the Pope early 16th century. The Allegory of the Tudor Succession, copy by Remigius van Leemput of Holbein's lost work.
The Hampton Court Beauties are a series of eight portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller, commissioned by Queen Mary II, [1] depicting the most glamorous ladies from her court. They adorn the state rooms of King William III at Hampton Court Palace .
Among his most famous paintings are a series of 10 portraits of ladies from the Royal court, known as the Windsor Beauties, formerly at Windsor Castle but now at Hampton Court Palace; a similar series for Althorp; a series of 12 of the admirals and captains who fought in the Second Anglo-Dutch War, known as the "Flagmen of Lowestoft", now ...
Pages in category "Paintings by Peter Lely" ... Flagmen of Lowestoft; W. Windsor Beauties This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 21:22 (UTC) ...
Elizabeth was an important patron of the artist Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680), who painted her several times. Her portraits were among the Windsor Beauties at Hampton Court and among the series of beautiful women portraits, ordered by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
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Margaret, Lady Denham (c. 1642 – January 1667), formerly the Honourable Margaret Brooke, was an English courtier during the reign of King Charles II of England and was one of the "Windsor Beauties" painted by Sir Peter Lely. [1] She was a mistress of the future King James II of England.