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The Windsor Beauties

portrait series by Lely

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  • Sir Peter Lely, etching after a painting by the artist.
    In Sir Peter Lely

    …series of court ladies titled The Windsor Beauties (1660s). Simultaneously he painted the portrait series of the Admirals (1666–67) at Greenwich, the best of them rugged and severely masculine characterizations. Lely’s late works are marred by stylistic mannerisms and decreasing vitality.

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