
Peter Lely
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 344 years ago |
Date of birth | September 14,1618 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Soest |
Germany | |
Date of died | December 7,1680 |
Died | Covent Garden |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
On view | The Getty |
Art Gallery of South Australia | |
Periods | Baroque |
Series | Windsor Beauties |
Job | Painter |
Visual Artist | |
Period by artworks | Baroque |
Known for | Painting |
Works | Nymphs by a fountain |
Susanna and the Elders | |
Nationality | British |
Dutch | |
English | |
Place of burial | St Paul’s Church Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom |
Art series | Windsor Beauties |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 437294 |
Peter Lely Life story
Sir Peter Lely was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. He became a naturalised British subject and was knighted in 1679.