Peter Lely

Details

Instance of

human

Born

14 September 1618

Died

30 November 1680

Place of birth

Soest

Place of death

Covent Garden, London

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Peter, Pieter

Family name

Faes, Lely

Movement

Baroque painting

Genre

portrait, painting

Occupation

painter, draftsperson, designer

Position held

Principal Painter in Ordinary

Citizenship

Dutch Republic

Awards

Knight Bachelor

artist files at

Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

birth name

Pieter van der Faes

described by source

The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, Het Gulden Cabinet, Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Lives of Flemish, German, and Dutch painters, The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

has works in the collection

Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, J. Paul Getty Museum, Tate, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada, Städel Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Groeningemuseum

languages spoken, written or signed

Dutch

member of

Haarlem Guild of St. Luke

name in native language

Peter Lely

notable work

Peter Pett and the Sovereign of the Seas, Portrait of Charles I, with his second son, James, Duke of York, Portrait of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English Admiral and Statesman

place of burial

St Paul's Church, Covent Garden

student

Olivier van Deuren, John Greenhill

student of

Frans Pietersz de Grebber

work location

Haarlem, London, Amsterdam

Connected on Wikidata

Authority files