Sir Peter Lely, September 14, 1618 – November 30, 1680, was a painter and draftsman born Pieter van der Faes in Soest, Westphalia. He trained in Haarlem and was active in England from the 1640s.
Lely worked in portraiture, mythological and biblical subjects, and drawings. After the Restoration he became the leading court portraitist in England and was appointed Principal Painter to King Charles II in 1661. He was knighted in 1680.
His work includes portraits of members of the Stuart court and aristocracy, images of royal and literary figures, and early narrative paintings. Lely died in London in 1680.
Self-portrait, c 1655
Black and coloured chalks heightened with white, 15.2 x 12.2 in
Private Collection
Nymphs by a Fountain, early 1650s
Oil on canvas, 50.6 x 56.9 in
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
The Letter, 1650–1660
Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 33.8 in
Detroit Institute of Arts
A Boy as a Shepherd, c 1658–1660
Oil on canvas, 36 x 29.8 in
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Two Ladies of the Lake Family, c 1660
Oil on canvas, 50 x 71.3 in
Tate Britain, London
Portrait of a Man, Thought to Be George Booth, Lord Delamere, c 1660
Oil on canvas, 35.9 x 30 in
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Catherine of Braganza, c 1663–1665
Oil on canvas, 49.4 x 40.4 in
Royal Collection, UK
Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford, c 1665
Oil on canvas, 52 x 41 in
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, 1665–1671
Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 39.8 in
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Portrait of Nell Gwyn in the Image of Venus, 1668
Oil on canvas, 49 x 62 in
Private Collection
Bartholomew Beale, c 1670
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Finding of Moses, 17th century
Oil on canvas, 21.3 x 25 in
Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes, France
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