1. Peter Lely
the british baroque

2. Outline In Days of Ease, when now the weary Sword
Was sheath’d, and Luxury with Charles restor’d,
[...] Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy Eye, that spoke the melting soul.
Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace,
I From Dutch import to knighted Englishman
II The face of the nation: self-fashioning and portraiture under Lely
III The industry of art, through mass production and art collection

3. A Dutchman made British
- Pieter van der Faes, born in Germany, trained in Haarlem (Netherlands)
- Pieter Grebber
- moved to London around
- prominent position as court painter
naturalised English subject, knighted in 1680

4. Nymphs by a Fountain, 1650. Oil on canvas, 128.5 x 144.6cm.

5. Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, 1653-54. Oil on canvas,  73 x 61cm.

6. Self-fashioning in the 17th century
-  The name ‘’Lely’’; following in the steps of Van Dyck
- general tendancy to self-fashioning
Margaret Cavendish
- portraiture as a means of giving power back to the monarchy and aristocracy (Solkin), very lucrative for painters. The Flagmen of Lowestoft

7. Flagmen of Lowestoft: Admiral Sir John Harman, d. 1673. 1666
Flagmen of Lowestoft: Admiral Sir John Harman, d Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.5 cm.

8. A new politics of pleasure
- “Windsor Beauties”, 1660s, commissioned by the Duchess of York.
- “peekaboo nipples” (Schama)
- baroque : clair-obscur, influence of Van Dyck. Richness.

9. Portrait of a young woman and child, as Venus and Cupid, 1670s
Portrait of a young woman and child, as Venus and Cupid, 1670s. Oil on canvas, x cm.

10. Portrait of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, ca 1671-74
Portrait of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, ca Oil on canvas, × cm.

11. Industry of art - mass production - mezzotint
- important art collector

13. Conclusion
- Dutch-trained painter who became great British baroque painter
- at the service of whoever was in power (patronage) but £££
- sensual ladies
- in huge quantity
- important art collector
SIr Peter Lely, ca Oil on canvas, 108 x 87.6 cm.

14. Bibliography - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Schama, Simon. The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits. London: Viking, 2015.
- Solkin, David. Art in Britain Yale: Yale University Press, 2015.