Sir Peter Lely

Evidence about AK 's friends and contacts is sketchy, but she presumably knew well her fellow maids of honour Anne Kingsmill and Sarah Jennings , who later became, respectively, a distinguished poet and a powerful...

From an early age, the personal beauty of Lady Mary Villiers and her prominence at court ensured that she was painted many times: by Van Dyck (especially), John Michael Wright , and possibly Lely ...

As well as the classicized bust by Michael Vander Gucht which was later engraved as the frontispiece for KP 's posthumous Poems, 1667, a portrait of her by Sir Peter Lely now hangs at...

A sitter who wore a yellow dress for her portrait by Lely in the act of painting has been generally thought to be Killigrew.

St Hilda's College , Oxford, holds a portrait by Mary Beale , the most successful woman artist of her day, which has been thought to represent Behn. Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill discussed (with illustrations)...

AK also became a noted amateur painter. There are records of her portrait, religious, and mythological works; she also produced more than one self-portrait. The present royal collection includes her portrait of James II ....

The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...

The picture is a triptych, a form for which there were precedents in religious and in royal dynastic paintings, but not in the portrayal of a family. It is emphatically English in style, uninfluenced by...

In this pastoral elegy the poet links the dead woman with the famous dead: writers, thinkers and artists, Newton , Milton , Thomson , Lely , and Handel .